There are FEW students in the class room = There are no students in the classroom There are A FEW students in the class room = There are some (very less) students in the class room.
I think, many people often use "few" to mean "a few" in our daily life.
The author has provided some really useful inputs, which we may know and still tend to ignore. But I don't agree with fact that "Thanking you" is redundant. It can still be used at the end of the letter provided the subject matter of the letter requires so.
Re: Thanking you
by R Chakravarti on Apr 15, 2013 07:22 PM
By "fact" you presumably mean something like "assertion". You can't dispute a fact! There is a missing "the".
