Informal Letters

 Informal letters are personal letters. They are practised from one person to another such as relatives and friends who are normally close or known each other. Personal letters are written friendly and informal language but the formality of the language is not supposed to be given importance. The language of the informal letter is simple, clear, conversational and familiar. The features of the conversational forms of the language can be introduced. All the parts of the letter aforementioned are not used in the personal letters. For example, the superscription is not written in the personal letters. the subject matter of the personal letters can not be easily predicted but introduction of self and surroundings, request, apology, congratulation, invitation, sympathy, condolence, thanks giving, inquiry,etc are the common subject  matters of the informal letters.