You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You are a student at an English language school in Brighton and are living in private accommodation with other flat mates. You have not had hot water or heating for some time. The landlord’s workmen have tried to fix the problem but without success.
Write a letter to the landlord. In your letter:
state your reason for writing
describe the problems and explain how you feel
propose a solution and risk the landlord to take action
Write at least 150 words.
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Dear Mr. Jones,
I am one of the tenants at your property in Upper Lewes Road, and am writing to complain about the fact that we do not have any hot water or heating in our house.
As you know, we have been living in this house since September and have always paid our rent on time. However, we have had no hot water for last two weeks. This is making our lives very difficult, especially as it is now the middle of winter. Last week you said you would send a workman to our house within 3 days, but no one came. After calling many times, the workman eventually arrived at the house 5 days later....
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Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
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No. of Words: 188 200
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No. of Different Words: 121 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.703 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.133 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.088 2.4
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No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 32 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 13 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 7 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
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Sentence Length SD: 8.261 7.5
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Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.65 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.225 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4