How might you complain in the following situations?
- You are complaining to your flatmate about your noisy neighbours; they’ve been having wild parties every weekend for several months now.
- You’re complaining in a fairly neutral way to your neighbours about a tree of theirs that has grown so high it blocks out the sun.
- You’re writing a formal email to the local newspaper about the problem of noise at night from a factory in your neighbourhood.
- You’re complaining to your boss, with whom you have a fairly informal relationship, about new and longer working hours.
- You’re complaining to a close friend about having to work longer hours.
- You’re writing an official, formal letter of complaint to the top level of management about a lack of safety procedures at work.
Possible Answer
- Honestly! I’m fed up with / sick of their noisy parties week after week!
- I wish you/we could do something about that big tree that blocks out the sun. (we is more indirect)
- Most people take considerable exception to being awoken by loud noise from the factory when they are trying to sleep.
- I’m not at all satisfied about the changes to our working hours.
- I’ve just about had enough of working longer hours.
- I wish to complain about the lack of safety procedures on the company’s premises.
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