Occupation Flashcards
1
Q
What are common features of letters in business and management?
A
They may include subordinate clauses, passive constructions, and impersonal forms (e.g., It was felt that…, There are…).
2
Q
How do first-person forms differ in business writing?
A
‘We’ is used for collective decisions, while ‘I’ emphasizes individual decisions or attitudes.
3
Q
What is the typical writing style in e-mails or memos?
A
Writers are likely to use a demotic register, contractions, and incomplete sentence structures.
4
Q
What does Professor Crystal refer to in informal writing?
A
He refers to the loose syntax of spontaneous spoken English or ‘minor sentence types’.
