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    This document provides guidance on writing formal letters, including their common purposes such as applying for a job or registering a complaint. It outlines the standard format for a formal letter, which includes the sender's address, date, recipient's address, subject, salutation, four paragraph body addressing what, why, results and suggestions, and a closing with "thank you" and a signature line with "yours faithfully", "obediently", "truly", or "sincerely" depending on the level of formality. It also provides two sample letter writing exercises asking students to write to a newspaper editor about issues getting into their college of choice or problems with electricity supply in their locality.

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    This document provides guidance on writing formal letters, including their common purposes such as applying for a job or registering a complaint. It outlines the standard format for a formal letter, which includes the sender's address, date, recipient's address, subject, salutation, four paragraph body addressing what, why, results and suggestions, and a closing with "thank you" and a signature line with "yours faithfully", "obediently", "truly", or "sincerely" depending on the level of formality. It also provides two sample letter writing exercises asking students to write to a newspaper editor about issues getting into their college of choice or problems with electricity supply in their locality.

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    Letter Writing

    Formal Letters

     to ask for/give information


     to apply for a job
     to make inquiries
     to register complaints about inadequate goods or services
     to place orders/send appropriate replies
     to redress grievances
     to make an appeal

    FORMAT

    Sender’s address- (H.No and Place of writing)


    Date………

    Receiver’s address (The Post, name of the institution, place)

    Subject (in minimum possible words)

    Salutation (don’t use respected with Sir and /or madam, not to use Dear in a formal letter)

    Body- (in four paragraphs stating


    What,
    Why,
    Results and
    Suggestions)

    Thank you.

    Yours faithfully (obsolete)


    Obediently (for teachers)
    Truly (informal)
    Sincerely (formal)

    PRACTICE EXERCISES

    1. A student’s anxieties never end. After clearing the Board Examination of class XII,
    there is the uncertainty of getting admission to a college and a course of one’s
    choice. The cut-off percentage in good colleges rises every year. There are hardly
    any openings for average students. Write a letter to the Editor of a national daily
    stating the above problems. You are Reena/Rohit from New Delhi.

    2. You are Krishna, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar, Noida, and have been coming
    across certain headlines in the newspapers on the shortage of electricity. You are
    also facing an erratic supply of electricity in your locality. Write a letter to the Editor of
    a local daily regarding your plight and mention the inconvenience faced by the
    residents of the locality.

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