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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 ...,

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Dear Mr. Dahiya, I hope this letter finds you well. I am my intent to stay in for that I agreed to earlier. According to the signed agreement, the in January but I wish to stay here till April 2025. I have enrolled myself in a personal support worker program in an institution that is . The course will be ending in March 2025, so I here till April. You have always been kind and generous to me which is also a don’t wish to vacate this apartment and find a new one for a . I also want to some minor inconvenience I have been facing here. , the water heater and it . It will be a great help if you can send a technician to check for the problem.

I look forward to . Ankit

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

The letter fully achieves its communicative purpose, addressing all three bullet points with clear relevant detail and a consistently polite tone. The strongest aspect is the well-organised development of each point, while the main limitation is a scattering of grammatical slips and awkward collocations, including the request to 'allow me stay' and the closing wish to hear back 'positively'.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

TA Task Achievement

7.0

The letter covers all three bullet points from the prompt with a clear purpose, appropriate tone, and developed detail, though the closing formula 'Yours faithfully' does not match the named salutation.

CC Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

Ideas progress logically across the three required points with effective paragraphing and cohesive devices, with only occasional slightly abrupt links such as the transition into the repair request.

LR Lexical Resource

7.0

Vocabulary is sufficient for the letter's purpose, including 'personal support worker program' and 'water heater', but awkward collocations such as 'small period of time', 'six months will get completed' and 'hearing from you positively' reduce naturalness.

GRA Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

A good range of sentence structures is used with generally strong control, although errors like 'allow me stay', 'the six months will get completed', and missing articles recur without impeding meaning.

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