I am writing a description of a place and I need to change the sentence.
Have you ever wanted to visit a city which is surrounded by green hills and with a beautiful big lake? Well, `let me tell you about´ Tafí del Valle. It’s set...
I was wondering if there is a formal way to say 'let me tell you about'
A travel article may be written by an author. The author's name is printed with the article. In these cases, it is fine to address readers directly.
"Let me tell you about" is a standard way to address readers or people in an audience or conversation. It is neither formal or informal.
A tourist brochure usually does not have an author. Typically, tourist boards or organizations put out brochures and no one knows who wrote them. Therefore, it is not appropriate to use a narrative form of address such as "Let me tell you about".
A simple, direct statement such as the one below is an example of an appropriate writing style using a statement.
The town of [x] sits at the foothills to the Appalachian Mountains.
This might depend on what exactly you said and how exactly your teacher responded, rather than any interpretation or re-phrasing… Let’s remember first that “I am writing a description of a place and I need to change the sentence” makes sense semantically but is not correct in grammar, and the same is true of “Have you ever wanted to visit a city which is surrounded by green hills and with a beautiful big lake?”
What exactly did you say and how exactly did your teacher respond, please? “Let me tell you about… (anything)“ is a standard story-telling form going back as far as the history of language, as should be known by every teacher of language beyond the basic.
This can most obviously be seen in the oldest known work outside Biblical scripture, The Epic of Gilgamesh, which in various translations does specifically include the phrase “let me tell you about…”.
That being the case, who could ever suggest, let alone prove, that any grammatically correct use of the same semantic form was in any way “wrong”?
