A. How to Write English
Letters
(1) Forms of English letters
a. Blocked Form
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20 York Street
Seattle, WA 98500
USA
May 5, 2001
George Thomson
29 St. John's Square
London, W.G.1
UK
Dear Mr Thomson,
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… … … …
Yours sincerely,
(Signature)
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b. Indented Form
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20 York Street
Seattle, WA 98500
USA
May 5, 2001
George Thomson
29 St. John's Square
London, W.G.1
UK
Dear Mr Thomson,
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… … … …
Yours sincerely,
(Signature)
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c. Modified Form
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20 York Street
Seattle, WA 98500
USA
May 5, 2001
George Thomson
29 St. John's Square
London, W.G.1
UK
Dear Mr Thomson,
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… … … …
Yours sincerely,
(Signature)
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(2) Parts of English Letters
a. The heading
No.21, Victoria Street
London E. G. 7 England
UK
21st March, 2001
2007 Brooklyn Avenue
Olympia, WA 98502
USA
Apr. 3, 2001
8th Sector Gazayer St.
Building No. 40
App. No. 42 Maadi El Gedida
Cairo-Egypt
May 28, 2001
30 Orange Grove Road
Singapore 258352
Singapore
Nov. 12, 2001
b. The inside address
Mr. Henry Smith
45 North Avenue
New York, N.Y.
USA
Mr.
Mrs.
Ms.
Miss
Dr. (Doctor)
Prof. (Professor)
Pres. (President)
Hon. (Honourable)
c. The salutation
Dear Mr. Smith
Dear Mrs. Johnson
Dear Sir
Dear Sirs
Dear Madam
Dear Madams
Dear Prof. Green
To whom it may concern
d. The complimentary close
Yours faithfully
Yours truly
Yours sincerely
Yours very truly
Yours respectfully
Very respectfully yours
Yours cordially
Yours
Yours ever
Yours affectionately
With love from
Your loving son (daughter, sister, mother…)
e. The signature
Truly yours
( Signature)
(Miss) James Johnson
Yours truly
(Signature)
John Smith
Professor of English
Perdue University
(3) Opening and Concluding Letters
a. Opening sentences:
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I was glad to receive your letter of May 6 ….
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With great delight I learn that ….
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I have the pleasure to tell you that …
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Your kind letter of Saturday arrived this morning, …
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I'm glad to hear from you so soon.
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I haven't heard from you for long and I feel anxious.
b. Closing sentences:
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I hope to hear from you soon.
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I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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I look forward to our next meeting.
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Your kind early reply will be appreciated.
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With best regard.
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Hoping for an early reply.
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With kind regard to your wife.
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Please remember me to your parents.
B. Why Do I Eat When I'm Not Hungry?
The next time you go to put food in your mouth, ask yourself a
question. Are you REALLY hungry? Does your body really need
that food? That snack?? That second portion at dinner???
If you find yourself answering that question
with an honest NO, then determine WHY it is you are going to
eat when your body is not really calling for it:
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I'M BORED. Sometimes we are just bored and don't have anything
better to do. When this happens, and you start to walk into
the kitchen, take a detour to another part of the house. Do a
small chore as “punishment” to yourself for almost eating for
no reason. Or go for a small walk. That small bit of activity
walking or doing a chore will have quite the opposite effect
of having gone into the kitchen.
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IT TASTES GOOD. Yea. Sometimes it does. But sometimes we are
eating anything we can find in the kitchen, even if it really
isn't that great tasting. (like fat or sweets). When I'm
dieting, I like to eat food that I really enjoy. Eat less of
it, and savor it. And even if it does taste good, it is no
reason to keep eating after your belly is full, especially if
you are trying to lose weight. We have to learn when to “say
when”.
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I AM ALONE, TIME TO SNEAK SOMETHING. Isn't it funny how as
soon as we are alone in the house, we sneak into the kitchen
for a full blown raid. We must think that if nobody sees us
eating, we won't gain any weight. One of the favorite times is
when every one else is off to bed. Then we load up our stomach
with food and sleep with a full stomach. Self destruction.
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IT'S BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN THE PAST. It
may be true, but if you can beat the weight problem, you beat
the past, and maybe it will help you to forget.
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MY MOTHER ALWAYS MADE ME EAT. My mama always told me “MANGIA!!”.
And I did. I was a chubber all my life. We still mangia
whenever I see her.
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I AM STRESSED OUT, IT'S NERVES. Now here is a pretty valid
one, for me anyway. Many times during work or after work, I
would be feeding my stress instead of my hunger. And it does
seem to help. I don't know why but it does. Fix the stress
problem and you will be way ahead of the game. Once I was
able to beat the stress, I was halfway there.
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IT IS COMFORTING. This one goes along with being stressed out.
It may go with something else as well. Fix the problem causing
you to want comfort, or find something else to comfort you, if
you can.
More reasons ………
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TV!!! I know what makes me want to eat … TV! I rarely watched
TV when I was thin about a year ago. Then I started to watch
TV almost every evening. I put on 45 pounds. Evening TV
programs play too many delicious food commercials that make it
very temping to run to the fridge and snack. Watching food on
a screen for some reason gives you instant desire to eat. And
what makes it even worse is that many people are usually just
lying on the couch as they watch TV and snack. My best diet
advice: Stop watching evening TV (or watch a rented movie with
no commercials). Or even better, use a workout video instead
of any TV. PS: I have limited my TV watching in the last two
months, and I have lost an amazing 19 pounds. EXCELLENT
Advice!!
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BECAUSE IT'S THERE!! OK, give it away or get rid of it, or
if not in your house, walk away from it.
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REVENGE: I eat when I am not hungry because my boyfriend
constantly reminded what I shouldn't have been eating. I am
not even overweight. I have maintained my weight since high
school which is 9 years ago. But I would always eat the wrong
foods at the wrong time because it would piss him off. I don't
want anyone telling me what, where and when I should eat,
especially the boyfriend. That is one of the reasons I got rid
of him. Problem solved.
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DINNER TIME. One of the main reasons I eat is that it is
dinner time and my fiancé is hungry. Also, if I let myself get
too hungry I get a migraine. Hmmmmm.. maybe plan your day
to eat at that time, just eat properly and plan healthy meals.
If he doesn't like them, that's a problem.
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BECAUSE LIFE ISN'T FAIR!! Sometimes I look at my husband. He
can eat anything and not put on weight. I admit that sometimes
I eat something, cookies, milk shake, etc., just because he's
having one and, damn it, I should be able to as well. Like I
said, life's just not fair. Hmmmm, that it ain't. It's a
damn shame that we have to work a lot harder / eat less than
others to get down to, or maintain a desirable weight. That's
what makes all this so difficult. When we do reach our goal,
we have probably.
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BECAUSE I'M REALLY THIRSTY: I recently read that sometimes
people eat because they are thirsty. Not recognizing that
thirst, people will put something in their mouth (often
fattening). The next time you have a craving or feel hungry
(but you shouldn't) drink some water. Great advice.
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I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M EATING! Well, if you don't know, then at
least you're thinking about it! That's the whole idea,
thinking about why you are eating before you do it.
I read a small book one time on this
subject. I gave it to my sister a few years back, so I can't
credit the author. This book insisted this problem was due to
some kind of neurological thing. You wouldn't believe what it
told you to do to cure the problem of eating when you are not
really hungry. It gave you a series of finger tapping
sequences to use when you found yourself getting ready to eat
when you weren't really hungry. You would have to tap your
index and second finger on your opposite wrist about 20 times.
Then if that didn't work, you would tap underneath your
eyeballs, on the bone. They you would tap somewhere else, etc,
and back around all over again if you still wanted to eat.
I actually tried this for a few days. It
felt pretty stupid, and after the second day, I felt like I
had been had. I imagined this author laughing while he was
making money on this book. Hey, maybe it's for real!
Regardless of whether this was valid or not, it did make me
realize and think about this whole idea of eating when you
aren't really hungry. If the light bulb can at least go on in
your mind when you are getting ready to eat, and make you
think about what you are doing, maybe you can STOP. Go to the
list above and try to figure out why you are trying to eat, or
worse, blow your diet.
Well, let me give one opinion here ….
IF YOUR STOMACH IS GROWLING, IT IS TIME TO
EAT. If you are desiring food between meals when your stomach
is not growling, then it is not your primal instinct telling
you to eat, so don't. ASK yourself why you are eating.
Remember, you should still give your body some kind of
nourishment 3 times a day or your metabolism will slow down or
stop, and hold on to your fat. And if you do have to eat
between “meals”, be reasonable. Eat some fruit or cereal, the
fiber in those items has proven to be excellent for the heart.
At least think about what and why you are
eating the next time you have the urge to do it. By reading
this page, perhaps it will program your mind a little bit so
that next time you go for some food, you ask yourself ………WHY
AM I EATING??????? |
