A road near your home is damaged. Please write your town/city council to complain about it. In your letter •tell them who you are and where you live; •explain the nature of your complaint; • say what you would like them to do about it.

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing
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letter to you in order to complain about the condition of the
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near my house. Let me explain to you in detail below. I am a resident of the Ashok Nagar Society in the Vazira area of Borivali. Recently, the
road
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right outside my building had to be dug so that the broken water pipeline could be fixed. The workers took around two weeks to fix the pipeline issue.
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, they did not level up the
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properly.
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, the
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is full of potholes now. As we are nearing monsoons, the damaged condition of the
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will be extremely troublesome.
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, it can lead to two-wheeler accidents, and even the older generation and children might in my colony get hurt if they fall
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the uneven
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. Owing to the above, please could you look into
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matter at the earliest possible, and send workers to smoothen the roads. I will be obliged if you do the needful. Yours faithfully, Kathleen Holst

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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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