Letter Writing- Importance Terms (Informal)

BEGINNINGS

• Thank you for your lovely letter.
• Many thanks for your letter.
• Thanks for writing.
• It was good to hear from you.
• Sorry for not replying sooner. I have been very busy.
• Sorry for taking so long to reply. I have been revising for my exams.
• I’m sorry I haven’t written for ages,  but I’ve been busy studying and haven’t had the time.

SIGNALLING: "THE END IS NEAR"

• Well, that’s all my news for now.
• It’s getting late, so I’d better stop now.
• I’d better stop now. It’s past midnight and I have an exam tomorrow.
• I’d better finish – I’m running out of space.
• My mom is calling for dinner so that’s enough for today
• I have to finish my home works so I am dropping my pen
• My favourate movie is there on tv tonight so it’s time to drop my pen

ENDINGS

• I look forward to hearing from you.
• I can hardly wait to meet you.
• Please write again soon.
• Please keep in touch.
• Give my regards to …
• Hope to hear from you soon.
• Awaiting an early reply .
• Inform my regards to Sam

Don’t forget to inform my updating to Aunt and uncle.

Special Terms

·        By the way . . .

·        To tell you the truth . . .

·        I must tell you about . . .

·        Right now I’m . . .

·        You will never believe it but . . .

·        I hope that . . .

·        To be honest . . .

·        I imagine that . . .

·        I should have told you that . .

·        I have been looking forward to . . .

·        I am looking forward to . . .       

·        I am worried about . . .              

·        I was looking forward to . . .

·        I expect that . . .

·        I think that . . .

·        As it happened . . .

·        I didn’t expect . . .

·        I don’t expect . .

·        In truth . . .

·        The best bit is . . .                    

·        The worst part is . . .               

·        Worst of all . . .

·        Best of all . . .

·        You’ll never guess what happened?

·        You know what?

·        Do you know what?

·        Can you imagine it?

·        Have you ever . . ?

·         Do you think that . . ?

·         Don’t you think that . .?

·         Isn’t it time to . . ?

·         Have you ever thought about . . ?

  Punctuation Marks

! – Exclamation Mark (Wonder )

. – Full stop (Sentence Completion)

, - Coma (Line break)

: - colon

; - Semicolon

‘’- Single Inverter coma (give imp)

“” – double inverter coma(quote)

? – interrogation Mark (Question mark)