{"id":14322,"date":"2021-08-14T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T12:56:40","slug":"comma-after-best-regards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/comma-after-best-regards\/","title":{"rendered":"Comma after &#8220;best regards&#8221; \u2015 All You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>img#mv-trellis-img-1::before{padding-top:56.25%; }img#mv-trellis-img-1{display:block;}<\/style><p>Writing the closing of a letter can be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>You have to find the right words for the occasion, which means choosing a phrase with the right level of formality.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose wrongly, you could sound either overfamiliar or unnecessarily cold.<\/p>\n<p>As if this isn&rsquo;t enough to worry about, then there&rsquo;s that ever-present issue of commas!<\/p>\n<p>What do you do? Keep reading and we&rsquo;ll explain to you how to handle this sometimes-tricky phrase.<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Do you need a comma after &ldquo;best regards&rdquo;?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>You need a comma when it&rsquo;s used to close a letter or email or if it&rsquo;s in a position in a sentence that normally requires a comma. You do not need a comma if you are using it in a sentence and you follow it immediately with &ldquo;to&rdquo; and the name of the person you want to receive your regards.<\/strong><br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&ldquo;Best regards&rdquo; to close a letter or email<\/h2>\n<p>If you are ending a letter or an email with &ldquo;best regards&rdquo; followed by your name, there should be a comma after &ldquo;best regards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is the standard for any closing, including &ldquo;sincerely,&rdquo; &ldquo;love&rdquo; and &ldquo;all the best.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/comma-after-usually-a-comprehensive-guide\/\">Usually<\/a><\/strong>, your name goes on the next line.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, your closing would look like this:<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br>\nBethany<\/p>\n<p>This is how you are most likely to encounter the phrase &ldquo;best regards.&rdquo;<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&ldquo;Best regards&rdquo; in a sentence<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Best regards&rdquo; is most commonly used to close an email or letter, but you can also use it in a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>&ldquo;Best regards&rdquo; plus &ldquo;to&rdquo;<\/h3>\n<p>When &ldquo;best regards&rdquo; is immediately followed by &ldquo;to&rdquo; in a sentence plus the name of a person or another identifier, it should not be followed by a comma.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\" style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">Give my best regards to Zoe.\n<p>Give my best regards to your mother.<\/p>\n<p>My best regards to them, and tell them I&rsquo;ll see them soon.<\/p>\n<p>I want to send my best regards to the people of this town and the mayor for their warm welcome.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>&ldquo;Best regards&rdquo; at the end of a clause followed by an independent clause<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes, you could switch the words around a little bit so that &ldquo;best regards&rdquo; comes at the end of a sentence:<\/p>\n<p>Give Zoe my best regards.<\/p>\n<p>If you then add another sentence and connect it with a conjunction, &ldquo;best regards&rdquo; needs to be followed by a comma like any other word at the end of an independent clause that is connected to another independent clause with a conjunction:<\/p>\n<p>Give Zoe my best regards, and don&rsquo;t forget to stop at the post office.<br>\nGive the nurse my best regards, and thank her for helping us.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true if &ldquo;best regards&rdquo; comes at the end of a dependent clause followed by an independent<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/clauses-vs-phrases\/\">clause<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>If you give her my best regards, she will know I was thinking of her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What exactly does &ldquo;best regards&rdquo; mean?<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Best regards&rdquo; literally means that you are sending good wishes to someone.<br>\nIt is a somewhat formal way of closing a letter or email, and you would use it for business or in a situation where you did not know someone well.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of this context, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/comma-before-or-after-however\/\">however<\/a><\/strong>, it can have a warmer feeling although it is still also appropriate in a business or formal context.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if your coworker was going on a trip to another city to meet with some colleagues you have also met with on a business trip, it would be appropriate to say, &ldquo;Give them my best regards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>More informally, you would use it to send pleasant wishes to someone you don&rsquo;t know well but have fond feelings for.<\/p>\n<p>So, you wouldn&rsquo;t tell someone to give your best regards to your best friend or your spouse.<\/p>\n<p>But if your friend was visiting their mother, who you know somewhat and think about fondly, you might say, &ldquo;Give her my best regards!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"grow-exclusive-content-widget-aa70192d-d134-4c49-86a3-d6f2effb13c9 grow-allow-content-ads\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1FcGWj9ZmJCqbVuKMOa6A7yA_r8YRdtsq\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16942 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Comma-Cheat-Sheet-to-Google-Drive.jpeg\" alt=\"Comma Rules Cheat Sheet\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Comma-Cheat-Sheet-to-Google-Drive.jpeg 854w, https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Comma-Cheat-Sheet-to-Google-Drive-300x169.jpeg 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You have to find the right words for the occasion, which means choosing a phrase with the right level of formality. If you choose wrongly, you could sound either overfamiliar or unnecessarily cold. As if this isn&rsquo;t enough to worry about, then there&rsquo;s that ever-present issue &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"Article","disable-critical-css":false,"_convertkit_action_broadcast_export":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1119,35,1116],"tags":[80,1152,722],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comma-rules","category-english","category-grammar","tag-comma","tag-comma-after","tag-comma-after-best-regards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}