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Informal Letters

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  1. Letters to relations and intimate friends should be written in an easy, conversational style.
  2. They are informal.
  3. We can touch on many subjects and in any order we like.
  4. We can use colloquial expressions.

Features of an informal letter

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  1. However, we must follow the rules of spelling, punctuation, grammar and idiom etc.
  2. We can address the person to whom we are writing with phrases like ‘Dear’, ‘My dear’, ‘Dearest’, Dear Mr. ____ etc.
  3. The subscription part (leave taking) can include phrases like ‘with love and best wishes’, ‘From your affectionate friend’, ‘With kind regards, yours sincerely’ etc.

Features of an informal letter

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St. Dominics,

24th October, 2022 Place and Date

Pune 411 002.

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Dearest Mother, Form of Address

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I was so glad to get your letter yesterday. Thank you so much! I read it just after morning school:

but it made me feel very homesick. It seems years since I left home though it is really only about a month.

It seems ages to the Christmas holidays, when I shall be able to come home. It was much nicer when I was at the day-school and came home every afternoon.

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I do hate being a boarder. I am in a big dormitory, with about twenty other boys.

Some of them are all right; but the bigger boys are always playing nasty jokes on us smaller ones;

and we daren't say anything, or we should get a most awful beating. The master comes round to see all lights out,

but all the larking goes on after he has gone; so, he knows nothing about it. And I don't like the masters.

They simply make you work all day, and cane you for every fault. Most of the boys are horrid; but I like two or three.

Please ask Dad to put me into a day-school again. I would be much happier there.

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With Love,

Your loving son, Subscription/Leave taking

Tommy

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Model Informal letter

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1. Write the likely reply of the mother of the boy who is staying in the boarding school.

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