IXL | Which sentence is more formal? | 6th grade language arts

Which sentence is more formal?

Attention customers: the store will be closed Monday for its annual employee training session.

FYI, the store will be closed on Monday for our annual employee training session.

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Which sentence is more formal?

Many banks will begin imposing higher fees for checking accounts.

A bunch of banks are about to start charging higher checking account fees.

Formal writing is used for essays, business letters, and reports. The following types of informal language should be avoided in formal writing:

Type	Examples
slang	cool, funky, dude
idioms	knock your socks off
conversational language	gonna, kinda, yeah
abbreviated language	ASAP, btw, b/c
overly simple or imprecise language	he got some stuff at the store
contractions	can't, won't

Contractions are not as informal as the other types, but they should be used sparingly in formal writing.

Compare the following sentences. The first is informal. The second is formal.

Informal:

Yeah, ostriches can't fly, but they're awesome runners.

Formal:

Though ostriches are flightless, they are remarkably adept runners.

This sentence is more formal:

Many banks will begin imposing higher fees for checking accounts.

This sentence is less formal:

A bunch of banks are about to start charging higher checking account fees.

You can tell because it uses conversational language (a bunch of).

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