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Writing Samples
Band 6.5

You and your neighbours have noticed that the rubbish collection services where you live have recently been quite bad. Write a letter to your local council. In your letter, – explain what you have recently experienced – explain what the neighbours have recently experienced – ask what action will be taken to improve the service

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to complain
you
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to you

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 about the garbage collection service at 10 Kings Street, which does not comply with hygiene standards. I am Jennifer Ramos, a resident in the Down Town in Kings
street
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Street

The word street should be capitalized in this context.

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, we have been experiencing some issues regarding rubbish collection after the new contracting company started to collect the rubbish.
every
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Every

The word every should be capitalized in this context.

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 Sunday and Thursday they should collect the waste from the larger bin
at
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apply

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inside our compound but unfortunately they are not punctual to do that.
Moreover
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, they
are
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apply

The verb are appears to be unnecessary here.

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refuse to take larger
material
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materials

It seems that material may not agree in number with other words in this phrase.

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such
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 as broken furniture and electrical products. My
neighbor
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neighbour

The spelling of neighbor is a non-British variant. For consistency, consider replacing it with the British English spelling.

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has
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The verb has appears to be unnecessary here.

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raised the complaint to the people who came
for collecting
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to collect

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 waste, but they are argued with him and not ready to collect waste that day. Even though the collection day is on Sunday, they came only on Wednesday. We are requesting your kind action to resolve
this
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 issue. We are requesting you to arrange a meeting with them to discuss
about
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The preposition about seems unecessary after the verb discuss. Consider removing the preposition.

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the improvement of their service. Yours faithfully, Jennifer Ramos

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