Rules for Writing Business Letters (IV) 1

Common business terms are concise, clear in meaning, well used, smooth in work, and poorly used, which will cause confusion, misunderstanding and even unnecessary disputes, such as:

You asked for a short delivery time. The author originally meant to say, "You want to hand in the order as soon as possible." But short delivery means "short delivery" rather than "fast delivery", which is a wrong business term. Therefore, we should say that you require prompt delivery.

5. Appropriate writing skills or methods, and the correct use of the other six "C"

(1) A common weakness of non-English spelling countries in learning English is that they cannot spell every English word correctly. Whether the spelling is correct is a very important question. Sometimes if you accidentally spell it wrong, you will make a big mistake or make a joke. If you want to buy BOOTS, it should be boots in English. If it is spelled as BOATS, it means you want to buy a boat. How can I spell it correctly? The best way is to read carefully and pay attention to the correct spelling and alphabetical arrangement of each word. Pay attention to syllables, roots, prefixes and suffixes. Someone wrote a limerick and made a "summary" for this. I comes before e, except c, or when pronounced as a in neighbor or weigh. Its basic meaning is that I usually comes before E, except after the letter C or pronounced as [ei].

Here are some examples: (a)ie[ Pronunciation I:] Achiev, Sadness, Restoring Belief, Niece, Shield Briefing, Piece, Screaming Chief, Pierre, Siege Field, Pierce, Thief, Relief, Fierce Waving, Probation, Surrender (b)ei[ Pronunciation I:] Ceiling, Conceiving, Deception, Receiving (. For example, among the verbs ending in ceed, cede and sede, only three commonly used verbs end in ceed, namely beyond, proceed and succeed, such as accepted, cared, interrupted, preempted and retreated. Pay attention to the plural form of nouns, or you will make mistakes.

However, there are still rules on how to change the singular of nouns into the plural. (1) When most nouns change from singular to plural, just add a ""at the end. Such as: hats, hats; Acrobats, acrobats; Bananas. bananas. (b) singular nouns end in the plural of s, ch, x or z, usually ending in es, such as mass, mass patch, patch; Tax, tax; Buzzing. (c) When a singular noun ending in Y and preceded by a consonant letter becomes plural, remove Y and replace it with I and add es, such as: city, cities；; Community, community. (d) When a singular noun ending in Y and preceded by a vowel becomes plural, just add an S at the end of the word, such as money, money. (e) singular nouns ending in o and preceded by vowels become plural, such as radio. Radio. (f) When singular nouns ending in O and beginning with consonants become plural, es should be added, such as buffalo, calico, goods, dominoes, echo, embargo, hero, jinggo, mosquito, mottos, mulatto, potato, tomato, tornado, torpedo and volcano. But there are exceptions, such as banjo, Polosse, Cantor, contralto, generator, prostitute, octave, piano, quarto, silo, solo, soprano and zero. (g) When most nouns ending in f change from singular to plural, change f to V and add es, such as: half, halves, scarf, scares (or: scares); Self, self; Bundle, bundle; Thief, thief; Wolf, wolf. However, there are exceptions, such as: belief, chief, dwarf, sadness, handkerchief, hoof, dumb fire, roof and staff (H) proper nouns generally add S at the end of the word to form plural nouns, but end with ch, S, X or Z. If you want to add es, such as Kelly's family, Liu Mary's family, Finley's family, Harry's family, Fox's family and Hindes's family. (i) The plural form of letters, numbers, marks or other words used for this purpose is to add "s" at the end of the word, for example, three m's; Two twos; If the sum of. (j) Some loanwords still retain their original plural forms: agenda um-agenda focus-focia alumina-alumina locus-loci alumina-alumina hypotheis. Analysis-analysis larva-larva axis-bracket-parent bacteria-bacterial phenomenon-phenomenon basis-basic radius-radius chassis-chassis stratum crisis-crisis table-table data-data This is-the plural of compound nouns is usually the plural form of the subject, such as: father-in-law; Diners; Passerby; Onlookers; Ordinary lawyer; Attorney General (or: Minister of Justice); Major general; Templar knights. But some of them all use plural forms, such as nanservant, menservantsWoman-servant and women-servants. The above examples show that English spelling has certain rules, and you can gradually master the rules with more attention. However, any law has its relative exceptions, which requires special efforts.