Here is how you write the date according to the Cambridge Dictionary. In British English, the date starts with the day, then the month, then the year and, in a letter, no punctuation is required. You’ll find a good example in this correspondence from the Government of the UK website.Īfter the address, print the date, either a couple of lines after the address or shoot it over to the right-hand side of the page. The name, title (job or role) and address of the recipient should be written on the left-hand side of the letter. (Note: in the UK, the postcode appears after the town or city name.) The recipient ![]() If you are a small business with no official letterhead, you can place the business name and address either in the top right-hand corner or centre it at the top of the page. If this is not the case, or you are sending the formal English business letter as an individual, then print the sender’s address in the top right-hand corner of the page. If you have official business letterhead where the name and address of the company are already printed at the top or bottom of the page, you don’t need to worry about repeating the address again. ![]() Let’s take a look at the modern British English business letter, using the chronological structure: sender, recipient, date, subject line, salutation, letter body and complementary close. While today’s British English business letter still has the same classic format of old, phrasing has loosened up and adapted to become more contemporary and gender inclusive. ![]() Business letter writing has come a long way in the past few decades.
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