Which of the Following Is an Effective Opening for a Routine

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an effective opening for a routine information request letter?

• A) Please answer the following questions about your Web hosting services.
• B) My name is Jill Awbrey, and I am the office manager for Cape Consulting Inc.
• C) I recently read an article about your firm in the Cape Cod Times.
• D) Cape Consulting Inc. is the premier communication consulting firm in the Cape and islands area.

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Definitions:

Emancipation Proclamation

A historic executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate states.

Officially Take Effect

When something is said to officially take effect, it means it begins to legally or formally be applied or enforced from a specified moment.

January 1, 1863

The date when the Emancipation Proclamation was officially issued by President Abraham Lincoln, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory.

Special Order No. 15

A military order issued during the American Civil War that confiscated as Union property a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, and redistributed it to freed African American families in forty-acre parcels.