The Application of Grammatical Rules in Letters of Credit

Abstract

This article is written to describe the application of grammatical rules in letters of credit. The research is on 10 (ten) letters of credit, but one sample is discussed to represent them. As a letter of credit is generally a kind of written communication, grammatical rules should also get attention. A letter of credit, usually abbreviated into L/C, contains important messages, which are written using sentences or those considered as sentences. Theoretically, a complete idea is expressed in a sentence, but a complete idea in an L/C is not always expressed in sentences. A sentence fragment is considered expressing a complete idea. Grammatically, a countable noun is preceded by an ‘article’, but it is not always so to an L/C. It means that messages in an L/C are specifically expressed. A complete idea is written without a main verb or finite verb. Therefore, understanding is not through how messages are written in sentences, but on how the messages are interpreted. Non-existence of main verb, definite and indefinite articles, and the use of participial phrases, are the characteristics of messages in an operative letter of credit.

Keywords: grammatical rules, messages, letter of credit.