Hello!
I would like to know which phrase is correct: ‘I am writing you because of the job ad’ or ‘I am writing to you because of the job ad’.
Thank you for your time!
Instead of “because of”, it’s more formal to write “regarding”.
As for “you” and “to you”, it makes no difference. Both are correct.
‘writing you’ is not appropriate in BrE.
The point is that ‘write you’ works. I thought we were trying to avoid this battle of the variants!
I’d find it odd if someone who I knew was not American/Canadian wrote that to me. I’m sure others would too.
Where variants exist, I feel that people should be informed.
I agree that we shouldn’t make a song and dance about them, but I don’t think that means we should brush them under the carpet!
In North American English, you can’t say someone “wrote that me”. Now you’re getting silly.
However, we can say, “I wrote you a letter,” and I find lots of UK hits on Google for “wrote you a letter”, “wrote him a letter”, along with “wrote you about”, etc., so that use of the indirect object without a preposition is obviously not completely confined to one side of the ocean.
You begin to sound more and more like Amy. There is no brushing under the carpet intended. The original question was about ‘correctness’.
They’re both correct somewhere.
You are changing the goalposts.
I stand by what I said in relation to the original context.
‘I am writing you because…’ - sounds distinctly strange in the UK
‘I am writing you a letter because…’ is fine. The noun is needed.
I’ll take that as a compliment.
It’s “because of” that makes it sound strange, not the lack of a preposition. “Because of” distinctly lowers the register in this context.
When Simon and Garfunkel sing ‘Why don’t you write me? I’m out in the jungle…’ it sounds odd and wrong to my UK ears. No ‘because of…’ in sight. It requires either a noun or a preposition to sound natural:
Why don’t you write me a letter/note…
Why don’t you write to me…
Given that we don’t know whether Antonella is actually planning to write a letter using this phrase, and who the recipient would be if she did, I simply thought it would be useful for her/him to know that fact.