You have been offered a job, asking you to start next week. You want the job very much but, because of a previous commitment, you want to delay the start for another two weeks.
Write to the Manager, accepting the job, but explaining your situation and asking for the change to
your start date.
You should write at least 150 words.
Allow yourself 20 minutes for this task.
You do not need to write your own address.
Begin your letter as follows: Dear Sir or Madam . . . ,
Dear Sir or Madam
I am writing to request job postponement after I am accepted as your employee. I really want the job but I have a previously important commitment. As a result, I shouldn't have started working next week.
Being offered the job yesterday, you wanted me to start next week. I say thank you so much for the opportunity given. To tell you the truth, I really want to work at your company, but I cannot start working next week because I have had a previous commitment, which is my sister's wedding which will be held on the next weekend.
She lives in Korea, and she want me to p...
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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
No. of Sentences: 17 10
No. of Words: 220 200
No. of Characters: 894 1000
No. of Different Words: 122 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.851 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.064 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.167 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 45 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 35 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 15 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 8 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 12.941 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.781 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.618 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.213 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4