HOW TO WRITE EMAILS (FORMAL AND INFORMAL)

 HOW TO WRITE AN INFORMAL EMAIL

• KES Academy (1 BAT & 2 BAT)
• 36 tips etiquette for the perfect email (Advanced)

HOW TO WRITE A FORMAL EMAIL

• ESL writing lesson:  How to Write and Format an Email
• Business English - British Council: English for emails
• Grammarly. How to finish a formal letter / email
• How to write application , complaint or enquiry letters (with a sample letter)

HOW TO WRITE A LETTER OF COMPLAINT (advanced)

• Very good explanation with a sample letter, analysed. (engexam)
• Explanation with colours (test-english). Use of the passive and the reported speech
• Explanation in Spanish with sample letter (global-exam)

HOW TO WRITE A COVER LETTER/EMAIL (FOR JOB APPLICATIONS)

• Explanation with sample email (the British Council)
• Explanation in Spanish
• Sample letter

HOW TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR (advanced)

• Explanation 1 (with sample letter) 
• Sample in a real digital news

25 formal email writing format examples & best practices

Formal Email Format (With Examples for Various Situations)

HOW TO WRITE A NARRATIVE ESSAY

What's the "thesis"? 

A thesis statement is the main idea of an essay. It consists of the topic of the essay and the writer's claim about the topic that will be proven throughout the essay. The thesis usually appears at the end of the introduction, often as the last sentence, and lets the reader know what to expect.

Your objective is to give the reader a dominant impression of an experience or some aspect of your personality. In writing your thesis statement, use descriptive language rather than vague words such as: interesting, unusual, important, and great.

In conversation, you often begin a story by saying, “The weirdest thing happened to me the other day” or “I saw something amazing last week at the zoo” “I had a frightening experience in the elevator at work once” or “Men are strange, ya know? Like, one time….”

https://fastessay.com/blog/a-step-by-step-guide-to-write-a-professional-narrative-essay/

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Custom writing   

How to Write a Good Story (11 Tips from an Actual Writer)

How to write a blog entry / post

 

Summary as in the book

Characteristics (bullet points)

Inthinking 

Samples + explanations

Blogging students (The Guardian)

CONNECTORS OF ADDITION: TOO, ALSO, AS WELL (AS), EITHER

 AS WELL AS

English Grammar: explanation + good examples + exercises offline (AS WELL AS = IN ADDITION TO)

Learning English

EspressoEnglish

Exercise: Also, As Well As, Or Too (choose)

Exercise: Too-Also-As well (choose)
Exercise: also, too as well (choose)

ALSO -TOO - EITHER

Explanation of ALSO, TOO, EITHER  in English, with examples

Explanation + exercises: change the sentences form affirmative to negative
Exercise : choose also, too, either

Exercise: also / too or either.

AS WELL AS

As Well As” in a Sentence: How to Use It (with Examples)

Explanation + Quiz: AS WELL AS

VIDEO explanation: correct use of AS WELL AS

SENTENCES with AS WELL AS

Exercise : ADDITION, ADVANCED LEVEL . Two-answer-choice (furthermore, what's more, moreover, as well as, in addition to, besides, also)

Advanced level

COMMAS WITH NONESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

 

EXPLANATION 1

EXPLANATION 2

EXPLANATION 3

VIDEO EXPLANATION WITH SUBTITLES

Don't put a comma between subject and verb

 

EXPLANATION

EXCEPTIONS (LONG SUBJECT)

COMMA ABUSE . COMMA SPLICE

What's a comma splice?  Incorrect use of a comma to connect two independent sentences.

 

When you want to join two independent clauses, you need a conjunction or a semicolon. A comma alone isn’t strong enough to join them. This kind of mistake is called a comma splice.

INCORRECT: We were out of milk, I went to the store.

INCORRECT: The experiment was unsuccessful, the temperature was not controlled sufficiently.

INCORRECT: The opening paragraph was incredibly moving, it touches on the common fear of losing a loved one.

INCORRECT: Money is not the only motivating factor for people to work, self-worth and the need for more social interaction can also be reasons for working.

>> There are three ways to correct comma splices:

1. Replace the comma with a conjunction:

 CORRECT: We were out of milk, so I went to the store. 

CORRECT: The experiment was unsuccessful because the temperature was not controlled sufficiently.

2. Replace the comma with a semi-colon:

CORRECT: The opening paragraph was incredibly moving; it touches on the common fear of losing a loved one.

CORRECT: We were out of milk; I went to the store.

3. Replace the comma with a full stop:

CORRECT: We were out of milk. I went to the store.

CORRECT: Money is not the only motivating factor for people to work. Self-worth and the need for more social interaction can also be reasons for working.

The method you choose will depend on your particular sentence and how closely you want the two clauses to be associated.

(grammarly 1) (University of Hull)

SUBJECT - VERB SEPARATION

 

EXPLANATION 1

EXPLANATION 2

SUBJECT - VERB AGREEMENT

EXPLANATION 1 (CLEAR, EASY TO READ)

TEN SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT RULES

Errors in subject-verb agreement may occur when

• a sentence contains a compound subject;
• the subject of the sentence is separate from the verb;
• the subject of the sentence is an indefinite pronoun, such as anyone or everyone;
• the subject of the sentence is a collective noun, such as team or organization;
• the subject appears after the verb.

Recognizing the sources of common errors in subject-verb agreement will help you avoid these errors in your writing. This section covers the subject-verb agreement errors in more detail.

When to write CAPITAL lettters and punctuate correctly

 

RULES + EXERCISE

CAPITALIZATION IN TITLES

EXERCISE

EXERCISE

EXERCISE: Click on the words in the sentence below that need to be capitalized.

EXPLANATION+EXERCISE: Rewrite these sentences. Add capital letters wherever they are required.

EXERCISE: Rewrite the following sentences correctly.

GAME

GAME

GAME

GAME

False friends

DEFINITION OF FALSE FRIEND: a word that is often confused with a word in another language with a different meaning because the two words look or sound similar

 

EXERCISE: MATCH THE HALVES.

COMPLETE LIST OF FALSE FRIENDS

List of false friends 1

List of false friends  2 (short)


EXERCISES

Exercise 1: choose the correct answer for each question.

Exercise 2: twenty-option multiple choice

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