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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Letter/card/note

A guy who's working for me has just lost his mother last week, so i've sent him a sympathy letter/card/note. (to his actual mailbox)

What is best to choose?

  

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In very broad terms, here's the idea. a letter (if not electronic) is something you put in an envelope. It commonly starts with Dear *** and finishes with eg Your sincerely.

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In very broad terms, here's the idea.

a letter (if not electronic) is something you put in an envelope. It commonly starts with Dear *** and finishes with eg Your sincerely.

a card is commonly bought in a store. An example is a birthday card. It usually has nice words preprinted, and you sign it and add a few words of your own.

a note is like a brief le