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17. B
ONUS
C
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: F
ORMAL
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I
NFORMAL
L
ANGUAGE
SIX Quick Rules of Formal VS Informal:
1. We tend to understate our feelings and would say I was rather
disappointed or I was somewhat surprised instead of saying how we really
felt.
2. For the same reason, we do not use exclamation marks.
3. We often use the passive to emphasize the action when the person is of
less importance
4. We avoid contractions in formal letters.
5. We use formal equivalence of idiomatic language and phrasal verbs
6. Particular sentence structures can be used to create a formal tone.
Inversion is one example of this “Although we were offered an alternative
dish, when it was delivered to the table it was cold again”.
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