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Business letter. A business letter is a letter from one company to another, or such organizations and their customers, clients, or other external parties. The overall style of letter depends on the relationship between the parties concerned. Business letters can have many types of content, for example to request direct information or action ...
Not to be confused with malediction. A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [ 1 ] or complimentary close in American English, [ 2 ] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [ 3 ][ 4 ] or a speech made at a farewell. [ 3 ]
Closing credits, end credits and end titles are a list of the cast and crew of a particular motion picture, television show, and video game. While opening credits appear at the beginning of a work, closing credits appear close to, and at the very end of a work. A full set of credits can include the cast and crew, but also production sponsors ...
The aim is to promote clarity, cohesion, and consistency, and to make the encyclopedia easier and more intuitive to use. For numbers, dates, and similar items in Wikipedia article titles, see the "Naming conventions (numbers and dates)" guideline. Where this manual gives options, maintain consistency within an article unless there is a good ...
A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [ 1 ] Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may ...
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. [ 1 ] The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections. [ 2 ][further explanation ...
English punctuation. Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical ...