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Last month you had a holiday overseas where you stayed with a friend. He/She has just sent you some photos of your holiday. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter ● thank him/her for the photos and for the holiday ● explain why you didn’t write earlier ● invite them to come and stay with you

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Dear Harneet, I hope
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 letter finds you in
radient
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 health and in the best of spirits. I am writing
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 letter to thank you for sending me the pictures from our
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 overseas
holiday
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. I really appreciate your efforts
for
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in
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 sending
our
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 the photographs. They all are so amazing.
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, I want to thank you for the
holiday
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. It was great and much needed to get a pause from the hectic schedule. That
holiday
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 helped in relieving my stress.
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, I am sorry for writing
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 letter a little bit late as I was swamped with my office work. I hardly got any day off since we
return
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 from our
holiday
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.
It
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I
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 would really appreciate it if could visit and stay at my place. We will live those loving and funny moments again. Once again, thanks for the photographs and the trip. I am grateful for your friendship. Yours loving, Simran

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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,

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