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Letter to Landlord Requesting Apartment Lease Extension

Question

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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 ...,

Annotated response

12 correction notes

Dear Mr. Dahiya, I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing this letter to express my intent to stay in your rented apartment longer than I had agreed to earlier. allows me to stay for this I wish to stay till March 2025 in the apartment. I have enrolled myself in an institution that is in proximity to the . You have been very kind and generous with me from the beginning and that’s another reason why I wish to stay in this place longer.

Also, there are some issues which I am encountering in this apartment. The water heater the last two days. I was taking a bath and it suddenly which made me fall sick as well. It will be very helpful if you can send a technician to .

I look forward to and hope that you will solve the problem as soon as possible.

faithfully Ankit

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

The letter fully achieves its communicative purpose, covering all three bullet points with relevant detail and a consistently polite tone. The main limitation is a scattering of grammatical and usage slips, along with a mismatched sign-off, that occasionally weaken precision rather than understanding.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

TA Task Achievement

7.0

The letter clearly states the requested extension to March 2025, explains the changed plans through the support worker program, reports the water heater problem, and maintains a suitably polite tone, with only minor lapses such as the incorrect 'Your faithfully' closing.

CC Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

The letter progresses logically from the extension request and explanation to the heater problem and closing. The long opening paragraph is less easy to scan, and the relative clause after “locality” briefly obscures that it is the program which will finish.

LR Lexical Resource

7.0

The letter has sufficient vocabulary to explain the lease extension, study plans and repair request. Some expressions are awkward or unnecessarily indirect, including “in proximity to the locality”, “showered chilled water” and “reply positively”, reducing precision without obscuring the main message.

GRA Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

The letter uses a range of complex sentences, but accuracy is uneven: “personal support worker program” lacks an article, “is not working from the last two days” needs a continuing-time construction, and the comma after “but” is misplaced.

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