Your friend wants to come and spend his/her holiday staying at your place for a week. Write an apology letter to him/her and say
- Explain why you can’t do it on those particular dates.
- Suggest some alternative dates and things to do.
Dear Ifeanyi,
I hope you are fine. I write to apologize, your holiday at my place will no longer go on as planned. Our plan initially was for you to come to my place on the 28th of July and travel back on the 8th of August, 2015.
However, there is a recent development in my office that requires me to travel to Abuja on the 15th of July, to come back on the 1st of August 2015. I would have asked that you come on the 2nd of July, but my parents already called, insisting that I come to the village by 2nd of July to visit our grandfather who is critically ill. Therefore, my plan is to travel...
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No. of Words: 360 200
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Score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 10
No. of Words: 360 200
No. of Characters: 1509 1000
No. of Different Words: 180 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.192 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.312 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 82 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 60 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 36 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.031 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.286 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.283 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.626 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.236 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 4