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Last month you had an overseas holiday with some friends where you stayed at their house. They have just sent you some holiday photos.

Write a letter to your friends. In your letter:

thank them for the holiday and the photos
explain why you didn’t write earlier
invite them to come and stay with you

Hi John and Laura,How are you both? I hope this letter finds you well. Although it’s such a short time since we last saw each other, it feels much longer.Thank you so much not only for such a memorable holiday but also for the lovely photos that you sent of our holiday together. It brought it all back to me so vividly. Staying with you and seeing where you live was a real eye-opener for me. Australia is certainly a scenic country with remarkable landscape and wildlife, particularly up in the north where you are.Sorry, it has taken me so long to write back and thank you. Almost as soon as we landed back in the UK, my mother became sick. Since then we’ve been running around looking after her and getting carers sorted out. She seems to be improving now and hopefully will be back to normal soon.Next month, we’ll be celebrating our Wedding Anniversary and we’d be delighted if you could come over to celebrate it with us. It’ll be a chance for you to meet the rest of the family and see a bit of England. Of course, you must stay with us. There’s plenty of room and we’ll pick you up at the airport. I really hope you can make it.Take care and write back soon.Sandra

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IELTS Writing Task I - IELTS General Training

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 166, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , ...font-size: 21px;'>Hi John and Laura,

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, really, so, then, well, of course

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.48453608247 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 4.92783505155 81% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 5.05154639175 218% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.03092783505 99% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 32.9175257732 118% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 26.3917525773 99% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.85567010309 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1943.0 937.175257732 207% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 332.0 206.0 161% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.85240963855 4.54256449028 129% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 3.78020617076 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 4.2980682347 2.54303337028 169% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 127.690721649 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490963855422 0.622605031667 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 478.8 290.88556701 165% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.41237113402 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.13402061856 88% => OK
Article: 0.0 0.824742268041 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.83505154639 109% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 1.44329896907 139% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6804123711 103% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 16.3608247423 153% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 143.458300644 44.8134815571 320% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 149.461538462 76.5299724578 195% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5384615385 16.8248392259 152% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15384615385 4.34317383033 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.29896907216 23% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 2.54639175258 39% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 7.41237113402 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.49484536082 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.94845360825 152% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150267967294 0.216113520407 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10620023086 0.0766984524023 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789032048759 0.0603063233224 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150267967294 0.12726935374 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0580467560999 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 8.37731958763 226% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 70.7449484536 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 3.82989690722 292% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 7.45979381443 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.95 8.71597938144 194% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.35 7.59969072165 97% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 41.2886597938 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 8.62886597938 232% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 12.0 8.54432989691 140% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 8.15463917526 147% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum two paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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