You have recently missed a project deadline which resulted in your company losing an important client. Write a letter to your manager. In your letter • apologies for what happened • explain why you missed the deadline • tell him/her how you will avoid this situation in future.

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing
this
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letter to express my sincere apologies for my inability to complete the ATX
project
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on
time
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which caused a loss of an important client to the company. In future, I will take all necessary measures to avoid
this
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kind of situation. In fact, for the
last
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few months, I was on
time
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for the completion of all activities of the
project
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.
However
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, during the final testing stage, some bugs were found which took a considerable
time
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to rectify them. On top of that, my mother got ill and had to hospitalize for her treatments which caused my absence for a few days from the
project
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.
As a result
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of it, I was unable to complete the
project
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on
time
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and took one additional week.
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, I will take
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as a lesson and will prepare
project
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plans at outset allowing
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for unforeseeable events of
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kind.
Also
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, I will update the general Risk Register of the company, so others of the company
also
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could get prepared for an event of
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kind in future. Again, please accept my apologies for what happened. Yours faithfully, Alex Hunter
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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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