One of your friends recently had a birthday celebration, but you missed it and you forgot to tell your friend that you couldn't attend. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter: -apologise for missing the birthday celebration -explain why you missed it and why you didn't tell your friend -say what you would like to do to show you are sorry

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Dear Maninder, I hope
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letter finds you in the best of your spirits and I am writing
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letter to feel sorry about the fact that I missed your birthday party
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week. As you are aware that I have joined a new job as an assistant manager,
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, I was swamped with work
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week because the current financial year was closing soon and being an accounts expert, I was assigned with the task of rechecking all the documents before submission with income tax department by my senior.
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, my mother was
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ill and was hospitalised. I had to manage both fronts and that's why I forgot to write to you about my absence from your birthday bash. Now I am taking a week off from my work and I was planning to meet you for a dinner and by doing so I would make up for my absence from the party and we would spend some quality time too. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Yours lovingly,
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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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