Salutations and valedictions | Punctuation | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians and hello Paige hi
David today we're going to be talking
about commas in correspondence and what
that means is how to use commas in
letter writing so saying hello and
saying goodbye when you start writing a
letter or an email to somebody you use
commas so let me let me show you an
example so if you're running a letter to
someone you open it with something like
this dear Prudence comma I received the
plum jam you sent man you can see we
have this little comma here because what
commas do right is they separate
elements of the sentence from one
another so what we're doing here with
this comma is we're putting it after the
greeting to separate it from the body
text so that's how you begin a letter or
an email with a comma after the you know
dear part or the hello prudence comma
part you know whatever it is but Paige
how do you use commas toward the end of
correspondence of emails and stuff right
so at the end of a letter or an email
you'll use a comma in a sort of similar
way to how you use it at the beginning
so you'll say something like with love
comma
Bruce Ben bacharach so okay so we can we
can use them at the beginning like this
dear Prudence comma or we can use it at
the end the endings of letters so so
this has a technical name we were
discussing this before we started
recording so if you if you open a letter
that's called the salutation which is
another way to say hi and the way you
end a letter is called a valediction
which is like a saying hail I think wall
a in Latin means hail I think salute is
hello and Wale or volley is goodbye and
so this is really just like a yep hello
inning and they goodbye saying so if
you're saying hello in a letter or an
email you use a comma if you're saying
goodbye and a letter or an email use a
comma
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