6 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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