Your parents will be celebrating their 40th anniversary next month. You are planning a big celebration, but you are not sure how to make the occasion really memorable. Write to your best friend, Joan, who is a professional event planner. In your letter:
Dear Joan,
How are you and your family? I hope you are all doing well. It has been a while
that
we met since our friend Akash's birthday six months ago and I stress that we Correct word choice
since
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should
shoud
make it a habit to catch up frequently.
As I know you are one of the busiest professional Correct your spelling
should
event
planners in the city; I thought of taking your help for celebrating my parents
40th anniversary which is on 15th December. As Change noun form
parent's
parents'
usual
I am kind of lost when it comes to planning a party and I am in need of your help to make Add a comma
,usual
this
event
really memorable for my family and mainly for my parents.
I have been thinking a lot about the event
's location whether we should organize it in our home or in a hotel or in our family's favourite outstation spot - Ooty. Mainly, as you know my father and mother, they
are very particular Correct pronoun usage
apply
with
the people and the food, so we have to thoroughly discuss and plan the Change preposition
about
invitees
list, Change to a genitive case
invitee's
invitees'
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dining
dinning
menu, and Correct your spelling
dining
the
location to suit their preferences.
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apply
Also
, I would like to give a surprise gift to them in
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on
the
special day of their life. I welcome your ideas for the gift and my thought Correct article usage
a
in
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for
this
would be a car or a jewelry
for my mother and a hand-made watch for my father. Please let me know your opinion.
So, the above is the context for my letter, I recommend that we meet Remove the article
jewelry
a piece of jewelry
this
coming week when I come to coimbatore
for my office meeting to discuss in Change the capitalization
Coimbatore
details
Fix the agreement mistake
detail
about
all the details including if I have to compensate for your involvement in organizing Change preposition
apply
this
event
.
Looking forward meeting
you Change preposition
to meeting
next
week.
Thank you.
Yours dearly,
Srinivasan MSubmitted by msrinivas7866 on
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The Closing
The style of the letter determine how you have to close it.
Check out the suggested closing sentences for each type of letter in the General IELTS Test. The closing sentence should be the last sentence of your letter.
Formal style (To someone you have not met, whose name you don’t know)
- Yours faithfully,
Semi-formal (To someone you may or may not have met, whose last name you know)
- Yours sincerely,
Informal (To someone you know well, whose first name you know and use)
- Best regards,
- Warm wishes,