You are currently taking a course at a college but you will need to have a week off during this course. Write a letter to the college Principal. In the letter give details of your course explain why you need a week off say what you want the Principal to do.

Dear sir, My name is
TIRATH
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TIRITH
.I am an international student of master degree in computer science in
2014
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batch. Currently, I am in
second
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my second
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year. I am living in
college
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residence. I am writing
this
letter to request leave for 1
week
. My sister is getting married
next
month
at
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in
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my home country and she is accepting me there.
There for
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Therefor
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I am requesting
for
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apply
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one
week
leave. I can arrange with one of my friends from the course to give notes what I will miss during that
week
. I will be very grateful if allowed me
week
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a week
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off and I will arrange with my professor if he can give me permission to submit
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assignment later when I came back. Thank you
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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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