Proofreading_Letter

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Dear Proofreader,I would appreciate your proofreading of my essay. Many thanks.You were on holiday and you missed a meeting with your friend a month ago. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter: 1) explaining why you missed it. 2) arranging another meeting. Dear David,First of all, I truly and deeply apologize for missing the meeting with you which was supposed to be held around 2 hours ago. I am currently in a connection airport boarding overseas. I am now in Singapore and will leave here in couple of minutes with a flight heading to Paris. I have informed about this urgent seminar at short notice and had not enough time to communicate with you. It was to the extend that I have forgotten to take my suits. Consequently, I should purchase a new set in Paris.I would appreciate it if you would postpone our meeting to next Monday. Any time on Monday is fine with me. Please provide me with your appropriate time frame. Coincidentally, this urgent seminar, held in Paris, will be beneficial for our next week meeting because I would make a connectiont with one of the managers of the European Company, “Shell’, and this would go a long way towards establishing one of their company’s brand in our country, Australia. Therefore, keep your fingers crossed.Sorry again for missing the meeting and eagerly await your reply.See you soon,Daniel

Englishmaven · Accepted Answer

Another nicely written letter. You are doing well.

First of all, I truly and deeply apologize for missing the meeting with you which was supposed ,to be held around 2 hours ago. I am currently in a connection airport boarding for overseas. I am in Singapore and will leave here in couple of minutes on a flight heading to Paris. I was informed about this urgent seminar with short notice and did not enough time to communicate with you. It was to the extent that I even forgot to take my suits! Consequently, I'll have to purchase one (two?) in Paris.

I would appreciate it if we could reschedule our meeting to next Monday. Any time on Monday is fine with me. Please provide me with your appropriate time frame. Coincidentally, this urgent seminar, held in Paris, will be beneficial for our meeting next week because I will make a connection with one of the managers of the European Company, “Shell," and this will go a long way towards establishing one of their company’s brands in our country, Australia. So, keep your fingers crossed.

Sorry again for missing the meeting. I'm eagerly awaiting your reply.

Two notes:

When you want to make a negative verb with "have," where "have" means to possess (as opposed to the auxiliary use of "have"), you should use forms of "do" as you would with any other main verb.

I go. I don't go.

I need. I don't need.

I have. I don't have.

"I had not" is used when the forms of "have" are being used as auxiliary verbs.

I had gone there.

I hadn't gone there.

I have finished.

I haven't finished.

Another note:

Your sentence "Sorry again for missing the meeting and eagerly await your reply" has an important mistake in it. You are saying that you are sorry you are eagerly awaiting your friend's reply because you start the sentence with "Sorry again for missing the meeting and..." What you write after "and" is connect to your being sorry. That's not what you meant. I changed it in your letter.

Good work on your part. Keep writing.

Mohammad Ramezani · Answer

Dear Englishmaven,

Thanks very much for your helpful feedback and proofreading. I will try to send more writings in the near future. I hope to reach to a level of writing to be sure of achieving a good mark in IELTS.

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