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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

18 correction notes

Hello Mr. Cooper,

I am writing this letter regarding our lease agreement. I need your permission to stay a bit longer. living at Maple court on a lease agreement . I am working with a food company and they so I am six months which is the time period for the contract. I have better career opportunities in the same decided to stay . Additionally, I am familiar with the apartment and the surroundings. As I always on time and .

Please let me know about your decision. I also want to share an issue with you that the heater and due to weather change it's really difficult to stay warm. you can send an electrician to it would be really helpful. I am you soon. , Simran

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 6.5

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.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

TA Task Achievement

7.0

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.

CC Coherence and Cohesion

6.5

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.

LR Lexical Resource

6.5

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.

GRA Grammatical Range and Accuracy

6.0

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.

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