You have received a letter from your bank, asking you to acknowledge receipt of a new bank card.
However, the card was missing from the envelope.
Write a letter to the bank's head office. In your letter
explain why you are writing
express concern about the missing card
ask them what they intend to do
You should write at least 150 words.
Allow yourself 15 minutes for this task.
you do NOT need to write your own address.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to inform you that I received a letter from my bank today, which was supposed to contain my new bank card. Unfortunately there was no bank card enclosed in the envelope when I opened it.
I telephoned the bank to explain the problem, but I could not get through to the right department, even though I waited on the line for over half an hour, which was extremely annoying.
In the letter, you asked me to acknowledge the receipt of the card, but obviously I cannot do this as I have not received it. I am now very worried because it is a possibility that my card has gon...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 10
No. of Words: 174 200
No. of Characters: 694 1000
No. of Different Words: 108 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.632 4.0
Average Word Length: 3.989 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.259 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 37 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 26 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 16 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 7 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.818 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.153 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.395 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.733 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.191 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4