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    Personal Letter - Material Summary

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    Personal letters are informal communications between individuals for private purposes like maintaining relationships. They typically include a heading with date and addresses, an opening with a salutation, a body sharing news or requests, and a closing with a signature. While less formal than business letters, personal letters still use proper grammar and avoid offensive language. They allow contractions and a casual style to convey warmth and personality between correspondents. Common purposes are congratulations, sharing ideas, and expressing care, while common phrases facilitate conversation and correspondence.

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    Personal Letter - Material Summary

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    Personal letters are informal communications between individuals for private purposes like maintaining relationships. They typically include a heading with date and addresses, an opening with a salutation, a body sharing news or requests, and a closing with a signature. While less formal than business letters, personal letters still use proper grammar and avoid offensive language. They allow contractions and a casual style to convey warmth and personality between correspondents. Common purposes are congratulations, sharing ideas, and expressing care, while common phrases facilitate conversation and correspondence.

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    Personal letters are informal communications between individuals for private purposes like maintaining relationships. They typically include a heading with date and addresses, an opening with a salutation, a body sharing news or requests, and a closing with a signature. While less formal than business letters, personal letters still use proper grammar and avoid offensive language. They allow contractions and a casual style to convey warmth and personality between correspondents. Common purposes are congratulations, sharing ideas, and expressing care, while common phrases facilitate conversation and correspondence.

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    Personal Letter - Material Summary

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    Arty Yuniar
    Personal letters are informal communications between individuals for private purposes like maintaining relationships. They typically include a heading with date and addresses, an opening with a salutation, a body sharing news or requests, and a closing with a signature. While less formal than business letters, personal letters still use proper grammar and avoid offensive language. They allow contractions and a casual style to convey warmth and personality between correspondents. Common purposes are congratulations, sharing ideas, and expressing care, while common phrases facilitate conversation and correspondence.

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    Social function

    Text structure
    Language features
    Useful expression
    A type of letter (or informal composition) that usually concerns personal matters and
    it is sent from one individual to another such as family members, relatives and
    friends, and love letters. People write and send personal letters for only a small
    number of people to read — usually one or two.
    Writers can send personal letters for lots of different reasons: short memos for
    business strategies, love letters between long-distance sweethearts or even pen pal
    messages to foreign exchange students. Senders usually handwrite personal letters,
    which emphasizes the personal nature of the note.
     Personal letters are used for several purpose such as to congratulate, to share
    ideas, to share experiences, to express concern, to request something and to
    maintain relationships between two person.
     It can be to convey these information, such as: asking for help, apologizing or give
    advice, thanking someone, to tell good news or bad news.
     Personal Letter consist of 4 :
    1. The heading includes the date, address and receiver
    2. The opening consists the salutation and receipent
    3. The body contains information to the receipient
    4. The closing contains the complimentary closing and writer signature.
    1. Sentence Structure

    Accuracy of grammar may be more important than an email. Most of the time, complete sentence are expected. Mostly, present tense is used
    (simple present and past tense)

    2. Style
    Language use may be personal. For example, first and second person pronouns may be frequently used. May not be as formal as official
    letter writing.
    Be warm
    Vary sentence length.
    Write in a natural, conversational style.
    Let your personality shine through in your writing

    3. Allowed to use contractions

    Example : he’s, she’s, haven’t, they’re

    4. Although the tone of your letter is informal, please take note

    Do not use offensive language

    Use grammatically correct and complete sentences


     Dear,
     Dearest,
     Sweetheart
     My dear,
     My love,

    It depends on how close you are to the person you are writing to
     Yours
     With love
     Sincerely yours
     All the love
     All the best
     Much love
     Best wishes
     How are you?
     Hope this letter finds you ….
     Thank you for your last letter.
     It was so good to hear from you.
     Sorry for answering late.
     I’m sorry I should have written earlier ….
     Haven’t heard from you in a while so I thought ….
     I’m sorry to inform you that ….
     I’m looking forward to seeing you soon
     I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon ‘
     My best wishes for the coming test
     See you
     I’ll write soon
     I will have to stop now
     I’m waiting for a quick reply
     Looking forward to seeing you again
     Bye.

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