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Continuous Writing: Letter Writing – Informal Letters
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- Features of an Informal Letter
The informal letter is the letter you write to your parents, family members, friends, schoolmates, and classmates. Let us consider the main features of the informal letter.
a) The Heading:
This comprises the writer’s address and date. There are two types of headings, namely, the block heading and the slant (slanted) style.


Note the punctuation of the above headings carefully. You are free to omit the end punctuation marks as in the example below:
What to avoid
i. Writing your name as part of the heading
ii. Writing the entire heading in capital letters
iii. Unacceptable forms of writing the date:
Wrong – 12/12/92 ❌
Right – 12th December, 1992 ✅
Right – December
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