Your mother has retired from teaching after 35 years of service. Write a letter congratulating her and suggesting at least three ways in which she could remain active.
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The essay is in two parts: congratulating your mother and suggesting at least three ways in which she could remain active.
Both parts should be well discussed to earn full marks.
ORGANIZATION
The following features are expected:
1. Writer's address
2. Date
3. Recipient's designation and full address
4. Salutation - Dear Mom/Mother/name of mother
5. Introduction
6. Body of the letter
7. Subscription - Yours faithfully/Yours sincerely
8. Writer's signature
9. Writer's full name
Coherent, well-developed and properly linked paragraphs are expected.
EXPRESSION
The language should be polite, clear (unambiguous) and persuasive (to move the powers that be to take action).
The use of contracted forms, slang and colloquialism is not allowed. You are expected to use appropriate vocabulary and a variety of sentence patterns/types.
MECHANICAL ACCURACY
Concord (subject - verb, noun-pronoun), tense, determiners, prepositions, punctuation, spelling should be used correctly. Each sentence and proper noun should begin with a capital letter. Be careful not to use "i" instead of "I" for the first person pronoun (subject).
