Vocabulary. 3. punctuation - знаки препинания

1. tendency - тенденция

2. amount - количество

3. punctuation - знаки препинания

4. also - кроме того

5. salutation - приветствие

6. frequently - часто

7. omit - пропускать

8. colon - двоеточие

9. formal - официальный

10. routine - обычный

11. Dear Sir - уважаемый сударь

12. Dear Madam - уважаемая сударыня (мадам)

13. Gentlemen - господа

14. informal - неофициальное (обращение)

15. personal - личное (обращение)

16. Yours faithfully - с уважение (преданный Вам)

17. Yours sincerely - искренне Ваш

18. Yours truly - с уважение (преданный Вам)

19. both... and - как … так и

20. single - незамужняя

I. Read and translate the following information.

The methods of writing dates are different. There is a tendency to decrease the amount of punctuation in correspondence, so that it has become usual to write the date as 24 April 2005.

Also in the address, salutation and complimentary close, commas are frequently omitted.

For computer use the International Standards Organization (ISO) recommended writing the date in all-numeric form, with the year first, followed by the month and the date as 2005-04-24 or 20050424. But nowadays the date is very often written in the opposite order as 24.04.2005 or 24.02.05. In writing dates there is some difference between the British style and American style.

British style	American style
12th November, 200_ 12 November 200_ 12 Nov. 200_	November 12, 200_