Closing an Email

Just like in the email we saw between Allen and Steve.

The sentence at the very end can serve as a little push and I want to go through just a couple more of sentences like that.

There are many many more possible sentences something you can put at the end to just offer a tiny nudge or maybe add a little extra information.

Sometimes can be used to make a comment like I hope your parents are doing OK that’s fine too.

OK but this is for a professional email.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Please let me know A.S.A.P.

as soon as possible.

Let me know if you have any questions let me know if you have any questions send me these by Friday if you can send me these by Friday if you can.

Or please send me these by Friday if you can.

I’ll follow up next week.

I’ll follow up next week.

That means I will contact you next week to make sure that what we discussed in this e-mail is happening.

I’m going to make sure that everything is on track.

Keep me up to speed.

That means if something changes let me know.

That basically means Keep me updated Keep me updated keep me up to date keep me up to speed.

Same thing sometimes we say keep me also in the loop in the loop is very common.

Make sure to keep me in the loop keep me up to speed.

Keep me up to date.

These are all very very common.

OK.

And that really means send me updates when things change when things happen.

I need to know.

OK.

These are more professional ones.

These are for more professional e-mails.

Then for more friendly ones we might say things like I hope everything is really good with your family.

A comment or a small question but I want to make sure you feel comfortable using these because they’re very common for professional emails.

So we’ve gone through our tips for e-mails we’ve gone through examples of formal and informal emails.

The last thing I want to do very quickly is just go over some things that are said at the end of an email right before you write your name followed by a comma followed by a comma.

These aren’t all of them.

There are many many more I just want to give you a feeling for which ones are neutral which ones are very professional formal which ones are very friendly.

OK.

Take care.

But I should start with these two regards.

Best regards.

OK.

This is pretty general use.

Very let’s say General or neutral.

You could use it in a professional situation.

You could use it with a friend could use it with a teacher.

Very useful.

Take care.

This is probably more personal sincerely.

Could be could be neutral but it’s often more personal.

So it depends on the situation.

Yours truly is definitely personal.

Very personal.

Cheers.

Could be pretty neutral could be pretty neutral so cheers is often for maybe a colleague a co-worker or if you’re writing a quick e-mail to somebody you maybe are in touch with regularly.

Thanks is pretty general pretty general pretty neutral.

You could use that one.

This is very personal.

Love is very personal.

Take it easy is let’s say very friendly but you could use it in a professional situation if you need to.

It’s very friendly but very relaxed.

It’s not too formal but you could use it professionally.

Have a good one is the same as take it easy.

It’s pretty friendly but could be used neutrally for a friend or for a colleague or a co-worker later is definitely very casual very casual very relaxed you wouldn’t probably use that with a colleague unless you knew them really really well and see you is not really used that often in e-mail.

It might be used just as a text message or a message to a friend but see you is often pretty personal pretty personal.

I just wanted to give you a quick feeling for them and some examples.

There are many many more I would recommend just looking them up on the Internet finding a list and looking at some examples maybe of emails to see how they’re used.

Of course the best way to get good at something is to practice it.

So what I’d like you to do is practice writing either a business or formal email review it carefully to ensure that tone and style fit your purpose.

Make sure it fits the purpose and also make sure that your punctuation is perfect.

It’s got to be perfect.

Try a few.

Write a personal one and a professional one.

If you have time get feedback from people you know send it to a friend.

Have them look at it for you.

And as I mentioned use something like grammar Lee to check your punctuation check your spelling and check your basic grammar.

OK.

Good luck.