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 The structure of an English letter Invitation Mr. and Mrs. Zhang San request the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Robert’s company at dinner in honour of their parents’ Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary on Sunday, the fifth of July at eight o’clock New Asia Hotel 100 Deep Water Bay Road, Hong Kong R.S.V.P ( Please reply, 法语缩写 repondez s’il vous plait) Replying a Formal Invitation: Declining a Formal Invitation: October 24, 2002 Dear Professor Wang, On behalf of the Ohio State University, I would be very pleased to invite you to attend and chair the 2004 International Conference on Data Processing to be held in Michigan, from October 25 to October 28, 2004. We sincerely hope that you could accept our invitation. You are an internationally acclaimed（称赞） scholar and educator. Your participation will be among the highlights of the Conference. As you know, this is the 10th anniversary of the Conference and we plan to make it a truly international meeting. We have accepted many papers from several foreign countries, including two from China. Enclosed please find a copy of the Second Circular of the conference. If you can come, please let us know at your earliest convenience, since we have to prepare the final program soon. We are looking forward to your acceptance. Sincerely yours, Peter White 4.1.2 非正式的邀请信： 日常生活中的邀请信相对比较随便、简短，一般只有短短的几行。但是一定要把受邀请人、原因、地点以及具体的时间等内容写清楚，以免收信人因此而出差错。 Dear Miss Smith, My brother Peter will be staying with us for a few days during the Christmas holiday and my wife and I have planned a family dinner for him next Saturday evening at seven o’clock so that he can meet some of our friends. We should be delighted if you could join us. I hope you will let me know that you can come. Yours,