Your Employer Asked You to Compose a Message to Be

Your employer asked you to compose a message to be sent to all job applicants who were not selected for a sales representative position. You should

A) tell the applicant at the beginning that another candidate was chosen.
B) ask the applicant to consider why he or she was not selected.
C) place the "not selected" message in the dependent clause of a complex sentence describing the stiff competition for this job.
D) imply that someone else has been selected for the position, thus avoiding the uncomfortable job of rejecting someone.