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Email Opening Sentences
- I am writing in reference to your advertisement. (More formal)
- I am writing to request for some information. (More formal)
- I am writing regarding my order. (More formal)
- I am writing in response to your email requesting information. (More neutral)
- I wanted to ask about the package you sent me. (More neutral)
- I wanted to ask about the meeting. (More neutral)
- Thank you for your email asking about our new software. (More neutral)
Friendly Closing Sentences
- Thank you in advance.
- Thank you for your help.
- Thank you for your consideration.
- Please let me know if you have any questions.
- Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do.
- Please feel free to contact me if you need any more help.
- I look forward to working with you.
- I look forward to meeting you.
- I look forward to hearing from you soon.
- Again, thank you for all your help.
- Again, I apologize for the late delivery.
- Again, congratulations on the award.
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[Lecture script]
In this lesson,
we'll look at how to start an email, what we write in the first sentence,
and how to end an email with a friendly closing sentence.
At the end of this lesson,
you will be able to use what you've learned earlier in this module to write a well formatted and organized email with an appropriate subject line and tone.
In professional emails,
we usually give the reason for writing in the first sentence.
We often start with I'm writing to, and then you use a verb phrase.
Some common verb phrases are request, inquire about, inform you about, or inform you of.
As you learned in the last lesson, these are more formal verbs.
Here is some examples.
> I'm writing to request some information.
> I'm writing to inquire about your program.
> I'm writing to inform you of our new product.
And here are some examples using the more neutral verbs ask for, ask about, and tell you about.
> I'm writing to ask for some information.
> I'm writing to ask about your program.
> I'm writing to tell you about our new product.
Instead of a verb phrase, we can use a noun phrase.
After I am writing, we can use a word regarding, followed by a noun phrase.
For example,
> I'm writing regarding my order.
> I'm writing regarding the advertisement.
> I'm writing regarding the package you sent me.
In a more neutral style, you can use about instead of regarding.
> I'm writing about my order.
> I'm writing about the advertisement.
> I'm writing about the package you sent me.
So if you want to be less formal in the opening sentence, you can start with I wanted to, instead of I'm writing to.
Here are some examples.
> I wanted to ask for some information.
> I wanted to let you know about our next conference.
> I wanted to ask about your new service agreement.
Remember that using a past form wanted is a way of being indirect.
Sometimes you need to answer someone's email, so how do you start?
Well, you can start like this.
> I'm writing in response to your email requesting information.
In a more neutral style, you can write,
> thank you for your email asking about our new software.
Notice that the purpose the previous email is given by adding I-N-G to the verb.
> I'm writing in response to your email requesting information.
We can also use the word regarding.
> I'm writing in response to your email regarding our new service agreement.
> Thank you for your email regarding your order,
or in a more informal style, about.
> Thank you for your email about last week's meeting.
A common mistake is to include your name in the opening sentence.
It's not considered professional. But you can use your position like this,
> I'm the new head of marketing for Moonstone and I'm writing.
Okay, now that you've learned how to begin an email you just need to learn how to close one.
If you were talking to someone face to face you wouldn't just suddenly say bye, you would use a phrase like well
it's been nice talking with you. Or, listen I'd better get going.
It's the same in email.
It's important to end an email with a closing sentence.
Especially when you're writing to someone you don't know very well.
If you don't use one, it might sound too abrupt.
Meaning that it would sound rude.
There are several friendly closing sentences that we commonly use in email, let's learn a few.
Here we can use the expression, I look forward to.
Notice that after to we use a verb and i-n-g.
If the reader has helped you, you can use thank you in the closing sentence.
If you're asking the reader to do something in advance, you can write thank you in advance.
In these examples we can use please.
Often in the closing sentence we repeat the main purpose of the email by using the word again.
Finally, let's talk about layout.
The friendly closing sentence is often by itself in a separate paragraph before the closing and name.
Look at this example. The layout helps to avoid ending too abruptly.
Great, so now you know how to close out an email in a friendly, professional way.
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