Inquired/enquired into the is another frequent mistake. You a “ witness” “examine” witness and a case. But one does not into a one “enquire into” “investigate case”, should not be used to mean or “investigates it”. ‘Male member’ “male” “man”. You can say male members of my Do not say but “the family”. “my family members” of my meaning and meaning are “members family”. “Through” “past” “cross” “went past” frequently used e.g., went through the or crossed the You a “I temple”, “I temple”. “cross” river or a road when you go from one side of it to the other. Do not use such phrases as breathed his or no for is “has last”, “is more”, “is dead”. “It high time to do so and is an idiomatic English phrase. it was high time, the Court so” “As adjourned the case till is not English. next day” view to and is wrong. You can say a view to meaning “In do” “so so” “with reducing” “in order to and you can also say view of these meaning reduce”, “in circumstances” regard to view is impossible. “having them”. “In to” should insist on the Under Secretary to is wrong. It should be “You reply” “should insist on his is used sometimes as though it replying”. “Address” meant “ask”. “Government will be addressed to reconsider their is, strictly speaking, meaningless. order” sanctioned a peon to the Deputy should be the Deputy “Government Secretary” “for ) that the land should be is wrong. It should be Secretary”. “Petitioner wants transferred” the land transferred/to be “wants transferred.” VI FORMS OF COMMUNICATION The specimens of different forms of communication generally used by various functionaries of the Government of India are available at Appendix 9 of the Manual of Office Procedure (March 1987 edition). A particular form of communication is adopted for a specific purpose with a specific target group to be addressed. Accordingly, therefore, each should have some distinctive features, is only obvious. LETTER
“ Inquired/enquired into the witness” is another frequent mistake. You “examine” a witness and “enquire into” a case. But one does not “investigate into a case”, one “investigates it”. ‘Male member’ should not be used to mean “male” or “man”. You can say “the male members of my family”. Do not say “my family members” but “members of my family”. “Through” meaning “past” and “cross” meaning “went past” are frequently used e.g., “I went through the temple”, or “I crossed the temple”. You “cross” a river or a road when you go from one side of it to the other. Do not use such phrases as “has breathed his last”, or “is no more”, for “is dead”. “It is high time to do so and so” is an idiomatic English phrase. “As it was high time, the Court adjourned the case till next day” is not English. “In view to do” “so and so” is wrong. You can say “with a view to reducing” meaning “in order to reduce”, and you can also say “in view of these circumstances” meaning “having regard to them”. “In view to” is impossible. “You should insist on the Under Secretary to reply” is wrong. It should be “should insist on his replying”. “Address” is used sometimes as though it meant “ask”. “Government will be addressed to reconsider their order” is, strictly speaking, meaningless. ) “Government sanctioned a peon to the Deputy Secretary” should be “for the Deputy Secretary”. “Petitioner wants that the land should be transferred” is wrong. It should be “wants the land transferred/to be transferred.” VI FORMS OF COMMUNICATION The specimens of different forms of communication generally used by various functionaries of the Government of India are available at Appendix 9 of the Manual of Office Procedure (March 1987 edition). A particular form of communication is adopted for a specific purpose with a specific target group to be addressed. Accordingly, therefore, each should have some distinctive features, is only obvious. LETTER
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