Exercises
Ⅰ.Please determine whether the following statements are true or false.
1.The Social Letters which are written to relations and intimate friends should be written in an uneasy，conversational style.
2.But this does not mean that people can be careless and slovenly in dashing off our letters.
3.Mistakes in spelling，punctuation and grammar at once may not stamp a letter-writer as uneducated.
4.A congratulation letter is written to criticize someone for their achievement and success.
5.The purpose of a thank you letter is self-explanatory.
6.A letter of apology，or apology letter，is primarily written to try to undermine a relationship after the writer and/or their organization has made a mistake，or otherwise offended another party.
7.Business apology letters should be written in a way that encourages them to forgive the mistake.
8.Many families send an annual holiday letter with or instead of a greeting card during December.
9.A complaint letter is a letter written by a customer of a service/products commenting on poor service or product.
10.I am writing to ask you to please make up the shortfall immediately and to ensure that such errors do not happen again.
Ⅱ.Answer the following questions.
1.What is the definition of social letters?
2.When writing thank-you letter，why is it critical for maintaining business relationship between the sender and receiver?
3.How to write a holiday letter?
Ⅲ.Writing practice.
Suppose Mr.Lehman has got Scholarship for his studies in Library Science in UK.A friend（Mr. Mehta)of his father comes to know of this news.Please write a letter to Mr.Lehman greeting him.