You are taking a course at a local college. The deadline for your project was last week but you haven't finished it. Write a letter to your lecturer. In your letter introduce yourself explain why you haven't handed in the project yet request more time to do it.

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Dear
Mr.
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Peter, I am writing
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letter to seek
apology
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an apology
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for not submitting my
project
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on time. I am a student of yours who is pursuing
third semester
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Marketing Strategies. My enrolment number is R2091098 and my student ID card number is TT 00456. The topic of the
project
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which I took
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semester is ‘Maximising customer satisfaction’. You might know that my
project
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deadline was on
20th
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of
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month. I was keen
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completing the work well ahead of the date. Unfortunately, I fell from
stairs
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of my accommodation and suffered a fracture to my right hand 10 days ago. As I was
on
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hand
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sling, I was not able to submit the work on time. As per my
doctor’
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advice, my hand has to be completely immobilised for a month.
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, I would like to request you to extend the time of submission by three weeks. I have already sought
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of my roommate to re-organise everything. He will be free from now as he had already submitted his
project
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. Once again I express my sincere apology. Yours sincerely, Titus Tom
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Dear [Lecturer's Name],
  • currently enrolled
  • regrettably inform
  • unforeseen circumstances
  • mitigating factors
  • extension
  • complete the project
  • priority
  • Thank you for your understanding
  • Best regards / Yours sincerely
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