                 AN EXCLUSIVE LETTER

  Dear Mr. [last name of boy in room],
     I hope you will excuse [name of girl in room]
for being absent from your [adjective]
[school subject] class.  I know she has been
absent [number] times, but she had to stay
home to help her father build a [noun].
She also had a dreadful cold in her [noun],
and her nose was [verb ending in "ing"].
She still would have made it, but then her
alarm clock broke and wouldn't
[verb (present tense)].  You are her most
[adjective] teacher, and I hope you will
not [verb (present tense)] her or give her a failing
[noun].

Signed, Her Mother
