English Café: With regard to

Advanced Details: With regard to

At PTTEP, there are many ways your can begin your writing by referring to previous communication. Following are some useful examples:

• In response to your equiry, I am happy to confirm safe receipt of your message.
• In reply to your email of 8 May, we would like to inform you that …
• Further to our meeting last week, please accept this follow-up about …
• Further to our telephone conversation this morning, I would like to assure you that …
• With reference to your email of 12 December, I …
• In reference to your proposal, out team has discussed it already.
• Following our phone conversation this morning, we have decided to …
• With regard to your email, I would like to say …
• In regard to the discussion we had on the phone last week, I …
• Regarding your email of 15 April concerning …, I am pleased to inform you that …

But do NOT write

• Regarding to the new plan, could we possibly discuss it again?
• Better: Regarding the new plan, could we …?

Don’t write “regarding to.”

In regard to and with regard to are correct, but not regarding to.