Choose the correct option for ending an application to the authority:

Yours faithfully

The correct answer is Option (3) → Yours faithfully

For writing a formal letter, following is the sequence:

1. Always start with the sender’s address
2. This is followed by the date.
3. The receiver’s address comes next.
4. Then comes the subject of the letter. It is a statement of the purpose of the letter.
5. Then comes salutation which can be Dear Sir/Ma’am.
6. Then the body of the letter.
7. Then the closing of  the letter, like ‘Yours faithfully’, ‘Yours sincerely’ etc. REMEMBER : The word 'yours' never takes an apostrophe.