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[atabitaraf]

Can 'dear' be considered as a title? So it must be capitalized for D?

For example when I want to start writing a formal letter if I like to start with 'hello':
Hello Dear Sir. Bahrami,
OR
Hello dear Sir. Bahrami,

 

[emsr2d2]

Can 'dear' be considered as a title? So it must be capitalized for D?

For example when I want to start writing a formal letter if I like to start with 'hello':
Hello Dear Sir. Bahrami,
OR
Hello dear Sir. Bahrami,

You should capitalise "Dear" but that is because it should be the first word of the greeting. We don't start letters like this with "Hello".

Dear Sir Bahrami

I am writing to you because ...

 

[atabitaraf]

You should capitalise "Dear" but that is because it should be the first word of the greeting. We don't start letters like this with "Hello".

Dear Sir Bahrami

I am writing to you because ...

So if I am to write dear Bahrami at the middle of my sentence it is not capitalized. Am I right?

 

[emsr2d2]

So if I am to write dear Bahrami at the middle of my sentence it is not capitalized. Am I right?

Can you give an example of how you would include "dear Bahrami" in the middle of a sentence? You said this is a formal letter. Using "dear" as an endearment in a formal letter to someone who you have said holds the title "Sir" (not just "Mr") seems rather odd.

 

[atabitaraf]

Can you give an example of how you would include "dear Bahrami" in the middle of a sentence? You said this is a formal letter. Using "dear" as an endearment in a formal letter to someone who you have said holds the title "Sir" (not just "Mr") seems rather odd.

I have only two options: 'Hello dear Mr. Bahrami' and 'Hello Dear Mr. Bahrami'
You know we usually start greeting and salutations with hello. Please consider this as an obligation.

 

[SoothingDave]

I have only two options: 'Hello dear Mr. Bahrami' and 'Hello Dear Mr. Bahrami'
You know we usually start greeting and salutations with hello. Please consider this as an obligation.

Who is obliging you to start a salutation with a "hello"? You have already been told this is not the way English speakers write.

 

[emsr2d2]

I have only two options: 'Hello dear Mr. Bahrami' and 'Hello Dear Mr. Bahrami'
You know we usually start greeting and salutations with hello. Please consider this as an obligation.

If you are going to start your letter with the four words "Hello", "dear", "Mr" and "Bahrami", then I can't advise you any further. That would not be the way any English speaker would start a letter so if you choose to go ahead, then you might as well just choose any combination of words and capitalisation you like.

 

[atabitaraf]

Who is obliging you to start a salutation with a "hello"? You have already been told this is not the way English speakers write.

This multiple choice question here which is not made by native people. Thanks every one however.

 

[emsr2d2]

This multiple choice question here which is not made by native people. Thanks every one however.

Was this homework?

 

[atabitaraf]

Was this homework?

No, I am a teacher and we sometimes discuss non-native-made questions to find it out whether they are possible in English or not.
As I mentioned before greeting or salutations starting with Salaam is usual in our local culture and we consider hello as the translation of it, so it makes sense to say 'Hello my dear friend Mr. Bahrami' here.
Furthermore I didn't find any grammar error in it.

 

[moonlike]

Hi
It's not the matter of grammar it's the matter of what natives say and write in those situations. I do agree with whatever emsr2d2 has mentioned here. That's what we use in our culture and language, and you shouldn't insist on using that in a formal letter, even if there's nothing wrong with grammar. That's English style of letter writing, not Persian style.

 

[SoothingDave]

If you absolutely had to do it, I would capitalize all the words.

 

[atabitaraf]

Hi
It's not the matter of grammar it's the matter of what natives say and write in those situations. I do agree with whatever emsr2d2 has mentioned here. That's what we use in our culture and language, and you shouldn't insist on using that in a formal letter, even if there's nothing wrong with grammar. That's English style of letter writing, not Persian style.

But it is something usual in different letters in different cultures dear Moonlike when they write English letters, as we can see in a variety of different formal letters. As I communicate with different professors worldwide they totally use different styles in salutations and I think their own cultures of greeting are all respected.