You were absent from an important event held by the company you work for. Write a letter to your manager. In your letter: • Apologize for your absence • Explain why you had to be at the other event • Explain what you will do to catch up

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Dear Ms Chen, I am writing to you to express my sincere apologies to have missed the town hall yesterday that you registered for me, as the meeting with a group of users overran. Please accept my deepest apologies for not turning up at the town hall yesterday evening. As the key agenda of it was the sharing of our company’s focus and strategy for the
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five years by our CEO, I understand how important it must be for the employees to attend and why our attendance was taken. I had a meeting with user project leads that was supposed to start at 2pm at their headquarter office.
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, one of them, who was a key decision-maker, joined us half an hour later.
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, our meeting ended only at 4pm
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of 3pm. As whether or not the project should proceed was to be decided in that meeting, I had to be there as a project manager. I checked with Jessie who was in the organizing team of the event and found out that, the slide deck presented by
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will be uploaded to our company intranet
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week. I will read it when it is available to catch up on
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important matter. I look forward to seeking your understanding. Yours sincerely, Hnin Hnin Wai
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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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