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Format of letter writing

Format of writing a letter

I think that letters used to be the main way for people to exchange news and feelings with distant relatives and friends, and they are still an important means of contact. Of course, there are still a lot of people who don't know much about writing letters, so here are some formatting questions to share, not to write a letter to the format of the friends, come to see it

1. address

Top box to write the addressee's name, you can add modifiers, such as "Dear" "Mr. xx" "Ms. xx"; address followed by a colon.

2. Greetings

Start a new line and write greetings in two blank spaces; common greetings include: "Hello!" "Zhanxin Jia", "See words as face", "See words as meet", "Zhanxin Yanhuan".

3. Body

After the greetings, another paragraph, the main body of the letter; you can write about life stories, you can write about their own views on a matter, you can write about their favorite books, they hate things, think of anything can be into the pen.

4. Ending

The most commonly used is: after the last paragraph of the text of a separate line, two spaces to write "hereby", and then a line of the top of the line to write "salute".

Other commonly used are "Shunshi kei, qiu sui winter jubilee", "hereby / good luck", "may you be safe and happy, all the best".

It is important to pay attention to the target audience, for example, if you are writing to your elders, you should use "敬颂时祺" instead of "顺颂时祺" (Shunshi Shiqi), and you will need to look up the information on the specifics of this.

5. Write your name in the lower right-hand corner, either a pen name or your real name, but it's best to use the same name if you've been writing to someone for a long time.

The next line of the name to write the date of the letter, format: x year x month x day.

6. Supplementary content

If you find that there is still content to be added after writing the paragraph, start another line after the paragraph, write "and:", and then add the content that needs to be added. In this way, a letter is completed!