Prepositions Business email

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Prepositions 
Prepositions play an important part in written business 
communication. The following verbs and prepositions are often found 
in business emails: 
apologise for something / doing something 
apply for a job 
draw attention to something 
have pleasure in sending / enclosing something 
look forward to hearing from / meeting someone 
refer to an email / telephone call / meeting 
reply to an email 
 
Use some of the above verbs and prepositions to fill the gaps 
in the following letter. (Put the verbs into the correct form): 
Dear Mr Jackson 
We ______________your letter of 20 January, in which you 
expressed interest in _____________the vacant post of sales 
representative. 
We ____________the delay ____________ your letter. We 
_____________ sending further details of the post. We should like 
to _______________ the fact that the post will be based in the 
North of England. 
 
We ______________________. 
 
Yours sincerely / Best regards 
 
 
are replying to
applying for
apologise for in replying
have pleasure in
draw your attention
are referring to
look forward to meeting you