Top 9 errors in business correspondence. Do not let ignorance deprive you work!

Business correspondence thing very responsible. After contacting the person, you are the face of your company, and you not only can not to fall face in the dirt, but also the need to adequately represent their company. If you do not want to lose their jobs because of the slightest mistake in your business letter, see what mistakes often admit in business correspondence and never do them!

1. Good day!

You will be surprised, but this phrase is one of the major irritants in Russian-language phrases. Many refer to it as neutral, but often eating the ice, you risk to come across a man who hates her, and then you can forget about any dealings with him.

2. Dear Ivan Ivanovich!

Another surprise. It turns out, the comma in this totally the wrong place for it is very common. We, of course, from school know that the treatment is necessary to allocate a comma. But in this case the appeal - this entire phrase.

3. The pronoun "you" is not written with the letters

Some write "you", even if it is a group of people rather than one person. Others, however, do not bother to uppercase and all written with a lowercase (small). But this is a mistake, and very annoying.

Remember: if you're writing to one person is drawn to the "you", if we are talking about a few people, they need to go on "you". And never write address "you" with a capital letter.

4. Treaty

Open any dictionary. None of them you will not find such a plural form of the word "agreement". Right only "contracts." A Big pronouncing dictionary even have a strict note in brackets: "No contract!».

5. According to the plan, and the statute

Imagine, some bosses even blamed his subordinates for the use of the expression "according to plan". Take it with you to work dictionary "Management in the Russian language" (edited by Rosenthal) to put his boss in place. As it is clearly stated that it is correct to say "according to (what?) Plans».

6. Subsequently, and as a result

Learn to finally write these words correctly. They are written on the contrary: as a result subsequently. They are very often confused in business correspondence.

7. Not enough invoice

Again, do not you see a mistake? The fact that the invoice - a compound noun, and should bow down both sides. There is an invoice, no invoice, consider the invoice - and so on. Do not be lazy to change both sides not to lose business partners.

8. Job 2 employees

Can not you see there a mistake? She accrued, which is not necessary to use in this case. And it can not be used in the following cases:

recording calendar numbers (do not write "March 22»); with Roman numerals (no Louis XIV-th, please); in page numbers or volumes, if the generic word stands in front of a numeral ("page 192nd" - so you can not write); 50th anniversary. We congratulate our colleagues with the 50th anniversary, 50 th anniversary or 50 th anniversary is by no means impossible. If they are educated, plucked for trouble. The correct spelling of this combination - the 50th anniversary. And in no other way. 9. The dot after the signature

Do not put a period after the signature in a business letter. Text appears here as a function of props, which is not a complete sentence.

Write always correctly, that one small mistake does not put an end to your career or that you did not lose their business partners. Literacy is very important for success in the work.

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