Writing business letters
This is how you address a person with the full name James Baldwin.
What is Mr Baldwin?
The part of speech that you can use if you want to describe a noun (e.g. man), a pronoun (e.g. he) or a proper noun (e.g. Peter).
What is an adjective (adjektiv)?
The English word for "bæredygtighed".
What is "sustainability"?
The three modes of persuasion.
What are 'ethos, pathos and logos'?
The Danish term for the word order that is usually used in English sentences: subject (x) - verb (o).
What is 'ligefrem ordstilling'?
The American way of writing 'd. 23. august 2019'.
What is 'August 23 2019'?
Words like HIS, I, US and YOU.
What is a pronoun (pronomen)?
The amount of greenhouse gases and specifically carbon dioxide emitted by something; a footprint.
What is the carbon footprint?
A syntax with many dependent clauses (ledsætninger).
What is 'hypotaxis'?
The Danish term for 'subject-verb-agreement'.
What is 'kongruens'?
The salutation used in business letters when you write the company and not a specific person.
What is 'Dear Sirs'?
The part of speech that describes time, place, manner, degree and attitude. It modifies verbs, adjectives, adverbs and sentences.
What is an adverb (adverbium)?
The English word for 'arbejdsgiver'.
What is employer?
The rhetorical device used in this sentence: The sly, slithering snake snuck into the shed.
What is 'alliteration'?
The person and number (tal) in which you add an s to the verb in the present tense (nutid).
Example: tells
What is the third person singular (tredje person ental)?
The English translation of 'Vi ser frem til at høre fra dig'.
What is 'We look forward to hearing from you'?
Words like ON, OF, FROM and OVER.
What is a preposition (præposition)?
This is a tool that is used for developing new business models. You used it when you planned your clothes swapping event.
What is the businees model canvas?
A type of question that is asked to make a point, rather than to get an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
What is a subordinate clause (en ledsætning)?
The complimentary close for business letters with the salutation 'Dear Sirs'.
What is 'Yours faithfully'?
The part of speech that can connect two main clauses / independent clauses (hovedsætninger).
What is a coordinating conjunction (sideordnende konjunktion)?
The place where Maxwell Frost held his speech about gun violence in 2023.
What is the US Senate.
The term that describes a sentence in which some items are left out. It makes the sentence grammatically incorrect, but it is frequently seen in informal conversations.
What is 'ellipsis'?
The grammatical term that describes the following structure: 'the man's boat'.