A foreign friend of yours plans to visit your place and stay with you, but you are not available on that date. Give your friend another alternate date for the visit. In your letter, you should: -apologies for it -explain what you are doing on that date -suggest to him/her an alternate time to come.

#friend #plans #visit #place #date #-apologies #-explain #-suggest #time

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Dear Sam, I hope

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letter finds you in good health. I am very excited to meet you after

such

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a long time and I believe you plan on visiting me on 23rd May. Unfortunately, I'm writing to inform you that due to some unforeseen circumstances, I will not be available at my house on the originally planned date of your arrival. I understand that

this

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is not the news you would like to hear, especially at the

last

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moment and I want you to know that I sincerely apologize for

this

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development. The reason for my absence is because I promised my grandmother, who is currently battling blood cancer

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the

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5 years, that I will spend that entire day with her and grandpa,

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was months before I knew that you plan on visiting me. I was hoping if you could visit me a day after

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the original date, as I have taken an entire month off from work in order to better enjoy our time together. I will be happy to compensate for any financial loss that you may incur. I look forward to hearing from you and please feel free to contact me on my phone number in case you have questions or concerns.

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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

firstly
secondly
thirdly
in additional
moreover
also
for example
for instance
therefore
however
although
even though
despite

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meeting the goal of 7 or more
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Overall Band Score

Coherence and Cohesion: 7.0

Logical structure

Single idea per paragraph

Greeting and closing

Accurate linking words

Variety in linking words

Lexical resource: 7.0

Varied vocabulary

Accurate spelling & word formation

Grammatical Range: 7.0

Mix of complex & simple sentences

Clear and correct grammar

Task Achievement: 8.0

Complete response

Suitable writing tone

Appropriate word count

5 paragraphs

210 words

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