Letter Writing

1. Formal Letter
Tips for Formal Letter writing

1. The content of the letter should be to the point.
2. Use given points and add relevant if any.
3. Language should be formal and professional.
4. Divide it into short and suitable paragraphs like introduction, body & conclusion.
5. Follow left alignment (no margin to left side)

Format of a Formal Letter

1.  Sender’s address (given in question)
2. Date
3. Receiver’s address (given in question)
4. Subject
5. Salutation
6. Body of letter (Introduction-Main body- Conclusion)
7. Subscription- Signature (Name) of the writer (given in question)

2. Informal Letter

Tips for Informal Letter writing

1. Use given points and add relevant if any.
2. Language should be informal and friendly
3. The content of the informal letter need not be short.
4. Informal terms can be used depending on the familiarity between the sender & the receiver.
5. Follow left alignment (no margin to left side)

Format of a Informal Letter

1. Sender’s address (given in question)
2. Date
3. Salutation
4. Body of letter (Introduction-Main body- Conclusion)
5. Subscription: Signature (Name) of the writer (given in question)

Specimen Letters
1. Imagine you are Yashkirti / Yashashree Patil, residing at Dhulia Road, Amalner. Attempt any one letter based on the given information.


Write a letter to the principal.
Yashkirti Patil,

Dhulia Road,
Amalner.
30th April, 2019.

To,
The Principal,
New English School,
Amalner.

Subject: Appeal to students to donate material for slum and tribal children

Respected Madam,

There is a charitable organization, We Care! It is working for slum and tribal children to provide them educational material. It distributes textbooks, notebooks, stationery and clothes because many of them cannot afford it.

Madam, now an academic year is over. If the students of our school could donate their used textbooks, bags, other school items to that organization, it will be beneficial to those students. This small act of our students would mean to a lot to these poor and needy children.

If you appeal to students of our school to donate study material, the members of We Care will collect it from our school.

Thank you, madam.

Yours obediently,
Yashkirti Patil

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Write a letter to your friend
Yashkirti Patil,

Dhulia Road,
Amalner.
30th April, 2019.

My dear friend Jaykant,

How are you? Hope your exams are over. Let’s enjoy our summer vacation.

I am writing this letter for a particular purpose. My father told me about a charitable organization, We Care! It is working for slum and tribal children to provide them educational material. It distributes textbooks, notebooks, stationery and clothes because many of them cannot afford it.

Our academic year is over. So these textbooks and other study material is of no use to us now. Instead giving to raddiwala, if we give it to the organization, it will be helpful to poor and needy children. They want to take education but they cannot afford it. See friend, our small act would mean to a lot to them. I am sure, you will donate your old study material. If it is so, convey me. I will inform the concern person of the organization to collect the material from your house.

Hope to hear from you soon. 

Give my regards to your parents.

Yours lovingly,
Yashkirti Patil

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