School
Office hours — asking for an extension
Visit your professor during office hours to request a deadline extension.
What makes this one hard
You are asking for something you are not owed, which in English means a short reason, a specific new date, and then stopping. Over-explaining is the common failure: the longer the justification runs, the weaker the request sounds.
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