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Recently you saw an article in a newspaper/journal about a city/town you know and some of the information in the article was incorrect. Write a letter to the editor regarding this. In your letter, you should tell: • how you know about this city/town • what information was incorrect • what the editor should do about this.

•e editor should do about
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. Dear Sir/ Madam, I am writing
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 letter to inform you that the information published in your newspaper about
district
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 10, California
city
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, is not correct. I was born and raised in
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district
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 and I am familiar with the modern infrastructure of
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city
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. My father
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 works in the
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 council and
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, our family have in-depth knowledge about the town. It was published that
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 10 have a water purification plant
which
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 recycles and provides clean water to the inhabitants. Unfortunately,
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 information is not true. I believe there could be a typo error because
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 plant is situated in
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 01 which is one of the pioneer towns of our
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. Kindly correct
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 information in your newspaper’s archive.
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, I would request to publish a correction note on Monday’s paper so that the audience could be brought out of any confusion. I look forward to your prompt action in
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 matter. Yours faithfully, Megan Smith.

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The Greeting

Depending on the style and aim of the letter, you will need to adapt your greeting.

Always start an informal letter in the ways:

  • Dear + name
  • Hi / Hello + name

‘Dear...’ is more appropriate, so stick with this.

For a formal letter there are two options for the greeting:

  • Use Dear Sir or Madam if you don’t know the name of the person you are writing to.
  • Use Dear + surname if you do know their name, e.g. Dear Mr Smith or Dear Mrs Jones.

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