Formal and Informal Sentences

Which of the following sentences is formal?

• How are you?

• How is it going?

• How have you been?

• How is life?

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

The minister of foreign affairs is going to make an official statement. She will use.... because...

• Informal language, because the statement is for public

• Formal language, because she is the expert

• Informal, because it is optional

• Formal language, because the statement is for public

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CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2E

This sentence is informal...

• I do not like it

• We won't be there

• I will never give up

• It does not appear

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2E

Thank you Arancha and Marise for co-hosting this meeting and I hope you are all in good health.

• Formal language

• Informal language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.2E

"I put up with his shenanigans for so long that the two of us would have passed for brothers."

• Formal language

• Informal language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.2E

"I cannot go to school today because my car refused to start."

• Formal language

• Informal language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2E

"My rad Delorean zapped me all the way to the 2020s.“

• Formal language

• Informal language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.2E

We can use informal language when we talk to..

• Friends

• Older people

• People we do not know

• Teachers

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3C

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.2E

"I endured his shenanigans for so long that the two of us seemed like brothers."

• Formal language

• Informal language

Tags

CCSS.SL.4.6

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.2E

What is another term for formal style?

• Traditional

• Academic

• Casual

• Conversational