You are Amit/Anu Pillai of C-43, Maya Enclave, Bengluru. Everyday you read newspaper reports about a number of crimes and murders. Write a letter to the commissioner of police, Bengluru, complaining about the rising rate of crime in the city.
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Explanation:
2. The Date
Always write the date below the sender’s address. The students can choose any of the following ways of writing the date.
10 March 2016
10 March, 2016
10th March, 2016
March 10, 2016
Unless mentioned in the question, students should write the same date on which they are taking the examination.
3. Greeting or Salutation
The salutation should be written below the address and date after leaving the space of a line or so. The form of salutation will vary according to the type of letter you write.
A. Personal Letter
(a) To members of the family, the salutation will be :
My dear Father, My dear Mother, My dear Sister, My dear Brother, etc.
To uncles, aunts, cousins, etc, you may use either ‘My dear’ or ‘Dear’ depending upon your intimacy with them.
(b) To friends, the salutation will be :
Dear Mr. Sharma (not very intimate)
Dear Mohan (intimate)
My dear Mohani (very intimate and affectionate)
(c) To strangers the salutation will be just formal. If they are men, it will be ‘Dear Sir’, if women, it will be
‘Dear Madam’.
4. The Address on the Envelope or Superscription
The address should be written very clearly in this manner :
Mrs Anamika Raj
58, Mount Road
Chennai
Notes :
When you write a letter in an examination paper, don’t write your real name or address. You may use a fictitious name.
Remember that the style of a personal letter is quite different from business, official or any other type of letters. These are intimate and long whereas the others are brief and to the point.