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Bookmark or Share- Regarding Re: ; what is the correct usage in an email subject line?RFC 2822, "Internet Message Format" says,. When used in a reply, the field body MAY start with the string "Re: " (from the Latin "res", in the matter of) followed by the contents of the "Subject:" field body of the original message.
- I sent ... vs. I have sent ... vs. I had sent you an email alreadyThey are all grammatically correct, but have slightly different connotations (in my opinion). The first two mean almost exactly the same thing; the only difference I infer between them is that the second is more likely to be in response to a person saying something like "why haven't you sent me an email yet?", with an emphasis on the word 'have' in the response.
- formality - Formal way to tell someone they accidentally sent you ...I have received an email from someone at work. He’s quite senior and probably would get quite angry to get an “accusing” message like: I wasn’t supposed to get this email. It looks like you sent...
- "Email" or "e-mail"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeEdit March 8, 2012: I created a Google N-gram which compares instances of e-mail with email in the Google Books corpus between 1988 and 2008, and it does seem that e-mail hit a peak around 2004, and has been in decline since, though it remains significantly more common than email.
- formality - Posting a letter and sending it via e-mail - English ...I am sending a formal letter to a recipient by registered post and e-mail. Is it convention to include within the e-mail/PDF such text like: "As sent via post on " or something similar to inform the
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