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A friend has agreed to look after your house and pet while you are on holiday. Write a letter to your friend.

#friend #house #pet #holiday
Dear James, How are you doing? I will be
traveling
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 to Ghana for the
next
one
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month for an academic programme. It will be of great pleasure to me if you can assist
to
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me to
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 look after my apartment and my pet(Rose). I will commence my trip by
24th
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the 24th
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 of September, 2019 and resume back on the 23rd of November, 2019. As regards
to
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my pet, please find below details of how to take care of the pet when I’m away .
First
 thing in the morning at around 8am, I feed
rose
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the rose
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 with
a
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milk. The milk is usually kept inside the fridge at the extreme end of
brown
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 cabinet. After feeding
rose
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, you will allow him to move around for a while and return him back to the cage. Rose will
then
 be fed with chocolate at 2pm and at 6pm before going to bed. As regards
to
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other household duties which your assistance will be need in that regard. Please ensure that the main gate to the building is regularly locked and you assist to spray the pesticide kept inside the garage by
30th
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the 30th
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 of September. I appreciate your kind acceptance of my request. Yours faithfully

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The Closing

The style of the letter determine how you have to close it.

Check out the suggested closing sentences for each type of letter in the General IELTS Test. The closing sentence should be the last sentence of your letter.

Formal style (To someone you have not met, whose name you don’t know)

  • Yours faithfully,

Semi-formal (To someone you may or may not have met, whose last name you know)

  • Yours sincerely,

Informal (To someone you know well, whose first name you know and use)

  • Best regards,
  • Warm wishes,

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