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IELTS Success Formula :: General IELTS Writing Task 1 Lesson
87
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SAMPLE LETTER Inappropriate tone
What’s wrong?
Appropriate tone
Dear Mr and Mrs Smith, Inappropriate tone — first names are always used with friends.
Hi Karen and Jim,
Thank you for your wedding invitation. It was much appreciated by my wife and myself.
Part 1 — content OK but tone (vocabulary/style) too formal for a letter to a friend.
Thanks so much for the wedding invite. Sue and I were really knocked out to be asked to join you for the big day!
Unfortunately, attendance at your function will not be possible owing to a prior engagement linked to an overseas project. Being released from this assignment is highly improbable.
Part 2 — content relevant but tone (vocabulary/style) too formal, too impersonal for a letter to a friend.
Very sadly, we won’t be able to make it, because we’ll still be tied up with that major project in Brussels, and I’m pretty sure we won’t be able to get time off to come back just for a few days.
It is our wish to offer you a suitable gift for this auspicious occasion. Your gift list was received with your invitation. After some deliberation it is our decision to send you the dinner set. It will be freighted to you within the next week. It is hoped that it meets your requirements.
Part 3 — content relevant but tone (vocabulary/style) too formal and too impersonal for a letter to a friend.
Of course, we’d really like to give you something special as a present to mark your super‐important day! We’ve had a look at the gift list and after a great deal of thought, we’ve opted for the dinner set. We’ll send it next week – hope you like it!
It is our hope that your celebration is successful in every way.
Again, too formal for a letter to a friend.
Hope, too, that the wedding goes brilliantly for you both.
Yours sincerely, Too formal as an ending to a letter to a friend.
All the very best,
Tom and Sue Johnson Using full name is too formal for a letter to a friend.
Tom and Sue