Letter to Landlord Requesting Apartment Lease Extension

Five months ago, you started renting an apartment on a six-month agreement. You now wish to stay in the apartment for longer than the six months you originally agreed with the owner.

Write a letter to the owner of your apartment. In your letter:

Say how long you now want to rent the apartment for

Explain why your plans have changed

Tell the owner about a problem in the apartment

Dear ...,

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Letter points: Letter to Landlord Requesting Apartment Lease Extension

WhyThis is aSemi-formal letter — it asks you to cover every bullet point in a polite, semi-formal tone.

SoWe group the points under each bullet point of the task.

Say how long you now want to rent the apartment for

5 points

Explain why your plans have changed

9 points

Tell the owner about a problem in the apartment

5 points

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The letter's strongest aspect is its full coverage of all three bullet points with concrete, relevant detail, including a clear request, a plausible reason for extending, and a described maintenance issue. The main limitation is recurring grammatical and phrasing errors, such as 'one of your tenant' and 'I am looking from hearing to you', which reduce precision without blocking meaning.

TA

Task Achievement

The letter covers all three bullet points from the prompt with appropriate detail: an extension of six months, a job promotion as the reason for changed plans, and a broken heater with a request for an electrician, using a broadly suitable semi-formal tone despite some awkward politeness formulas.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Progression is generally clear and the letter moves logically through its purpose, but cohesion is sometimes mechanical or faulty, with misplaced transitions such as 'As, I have better career opportunities' and a loosely connected sentence about being a reliable tenant.

6.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the task with some appropriate register ('lease agreement', 'career opportunities', 'surroundings'), but imprecise or erroneous word choices like 'a Onus tenant', 'give my rent', and 'looking from hearing' show limited flexibility.

6.5
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

The letter attempts coordination, reason clauses and a conditional request, but frequent grammatical errors include 'one of your tenant', 'things will same', and 'requesting you that I want to live'; these reduce precision without generally obscuring meaning.

6.0

What to work on next

Proofread for noun number, verb forms and idiomatic phrasing, rewriting awkward constructions like 'I am requesting you that' into natural forms such as 'I would like to ask whether'.

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