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The topic of my term-paper is the usage of abbreviations and contractions in English business correspondence. Today contractions and abbreviations are used here, there and everywhere, and there are no rules for all the variants, exceptions and features of usage contractions and abbreviations in business correspondence and mass media. But of course there are some fundamental rules which the author is going to investigate in this term paper.
INTRODUCTION 2
CHAPTER 1. ABBREVIATIONS AND CONTRACTIONS IN ENGLISH BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE. 3
1.1. Punctuation marks with Contractions 5
1.2 Usage of a capital letter 7
1.3 Usage of plural, the possessive forms and compound words with contractions. 8
1.4 Special rules of the usage of contractions with "a" or "an". 10
1.5 Abbreviations "A.D." And "B.C." 10
1.6 Contractions of names of establishments, associations, the organisations and the companies 10
1.7 The usage of & in contractions. 11
1.8 Contractions of the names of the four corners of the earth. 12
1.9 Contractions with dates 12
1.10 Contractions of academic degrees and professional categories 13
1.11 Contractions of the geographic names 13
1.12 Contractions of Latin words and expressions 15
1.13 Contraction of width and longitude 15
1.14 Contractions of military ranks and names of divisions 16
1.15 Contraction of the word "Number" 16
1.16 Contractions of proper nouns 16
1.17 Contractions of scientific terms 17
1.18 The usage of contractions with time 17
1.20 Contractions of titles, polite references and academic degrees 18
CHAPTER 2. BUSINESS LETTERS WITH CONTRACTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS. 19
CONCLUSION 27
LIST OF REFERENCES 28