Different Levels of Formality Informal English I’m sorry, I can’e. Please call back. Can you give me a hand with this? Formal English I regret that I will be unable to attend. I look forward to your reply. I would appreciate your assistance in this matter. A spoken excerpt from a staff meeting There aren’t enough parking spaces for everyone going to the party at the hotel on Wednesday night, so they’re arranging a shuttle bus to pick us up and drop us off there. Please use the bus so that the hotel has enough room for their own guests. A munication from a hotel Because the hotel does not have sufficient parking spaces for everyone attending the reception on Wednesday evening, we have arranged a shuttle bus to bring guests to the hotel entrance. We ask that you take advantage of this service so that we may modate our overnight guests. Formal & Informal Sentence structure Vocabulary informal vs formal spoken vs written
