Graphic peculiarities of business letter texts in Modern English
The paper examines the texts in the written form of Business English, namely, the business correspondence textsfrom the point of view of their graphic arrangement. The research is based on authentic business letters; the following issues have been studied: graphic arrangement of business letter texts; punctuation rules adopted in business letters; the use of uppercase/ lowercase alphabetic characters, punctuation marks in writtenEnglish Businesstexts.It has been revealed that business letters are clearly structured, each structural component of a letter is separated from the other by line spacing; the use of punctuation marks in simple, compound and complex sentences; in salutation, and in direct speech in English and Russian do not coincide; abbreviated words have no dot; abbreviations are written mainly in capital letters.