Wednesday 15th January 2014
Class
Error Correction - Emails - General Feedback
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/72820556/Euler%20Hermes%20Email%20Writing%20Feedback
Register Transfer: Formal - Semi Formal - Informal
Extra Practice
- Correct your own writing using the correction sheet as a guide.
- Register Transfer Exercise http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/writing/register/formal.htm
- Letter of Demand - multiple choice exercise on the handout.
Grammar Note: inform someone of something or inform someone about something
A correction that I made in class was that inform about should really be changed to inform of. I have never used inform about quite possibly because it is an American usage and does not appear in British English dictionaries. It does however appear in the Oxford American Dictionary and IELTStudyHorror.com even goes as far to suggest that there is a difference in meaning between inform of and inform about (See link above). However, the usage that they suggest for inform about (when detailed information is left out) seems rather odd to me and I would not use "inform" but "tell" in these situations.
If in down I would suggest sticking to the following structures:
inform someone of something or
inform someone that something happened
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