Formal and informal styles

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Formal and informal styles

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Analyze your audience in terms of your social
relations

• Whenever you write, you are interacting with
  other members of the society.
• Are you writing to a friend of yours?
• To a colleague?
• To the director of your business firm?
• In each situation, you have a different social
  relationship with your audience and this
  relationship has a definite impact on the style
  of your writing.

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Style of writing

• Levels of words
• Formal, common, colloquial
• Sentences
• Long sentences
• Compound-complex sentences
• Parallel structures
• Balanced structures
• Periodic sentences

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Formal styles

• Stylistic features in formal style
• No contractions such as dont, Im
• One as indefinite reference instead of you
• One---his or her instead of they
• Who as an object instead of whom
• Presence of that before an object clause
• Were in the subjunctive mood instead of was
• Participle phrases
• Nominative absolute constructions
• Adjectival and adverbial clauses placed at the
  beginning

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Thank you!