Unit 14, Composition 333Copyright © by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Composition
Lesson 115
Personal Letters IIPersonal letters can also take the form of invitations and thank-you notes. For
example, you might write a thank-you note to a naturalist who gave a talk to your
class. You might write a letter inviting your grandmother to visit you at your
home. These two kinds of personal letters are usually semiformal, avoiding the
slang and sentence fragments that you might use in a postcard to a friend. The
heading and the closing are usually indented, as is each paragraph in the body of
the letter. Exercise 1 Write a thank-you note to an adult relative. In your letter express your
appreciation for something nice that he or she did for you.
Letters should be semiformal, probably avoiding slang, and should comment in some positive way on
what the relative did. Letters should use indented elements and have an appropriate closing.