You recently took a trip with a taxi company. The driver behaved in an unacceptable way and you had a lot of problems. You complained to the company but no-one has replied to your complaint. Write a letter to the taxi company. In your letter say why you are writing and how you feel explain what happened tell them what you would like them to do.

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the recent trip that I took by booking your cab. I would like to bring to your notice that when I booked the

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trip the driver accepted the ride,

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, the pick-up was delayed by 15 minutes and after reaching the destination he argued that he needs cash which shocked me. Actually, I was having an exam in Chennai and so I decided to take a uber. My ride was accepted,

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, the pick-up was delayed by 15 minutes, when I called him he was having food at a restaurant which caused me anxiety as I was late for exams.

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to that, while at the destination he refused to accept card payment and asked for cash.

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, the money was already deducted

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I was not carrying enough cash which made my situation worse but we managed to sort

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out. I would appreciate it if you analyse the situation and come up with a solution. The behaviour of the uber driver was unacceptable.

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, I will request you to sort out the problems with the online statement.

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to that, I would request you to refund my money back. Looking forward to your response. Yours faithfully, Vivek V

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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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Overall Band Score

Coherence and Cohesion: 6.0

Logical structure

Single idea per paragraph

Greeting and closing

Accurate linking words

Variety in linking words

Lexical resource: 9.0

Varied vocabulary

Accurate spelling & word formation

Grammatical Range: 9.0

Mix of complex & simple sentences

Clear and correct grammar

Task Achievement: 9.0

Complete response

Suitable writing tone

Appropriate word count

7 paragraphs

214 words

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