Dear Kenneth,
I am incredibly sorry not to have been in touch recently. Things have been a bit hectic around here.
My big news is that I am no longer in the financial sector. Thank goodness!
As I probably mentioned to you last time we met, I was getting sick and tired of working in the
bank. Getting up every morning to join the rat race really wasn’t my cup of tea. I was completely
disillusioned with it and it had started to affect my mental and physical health.
For the last couple of months, I have been looking for something a bit more exciting and eventually
plucked up the courage to apply for a job as a juggler and children’s entertainer. I’ve always thought
I had a real flair for that sort of thing. Surprisingly, considering I had no previous experience, I got
the job and Saturday was my first ‘gig’. It was terrifying but brilliant I haven’t had so much fun in
ages and it didn’t take too long to get all the cake out of my hair when I got home.
Well, of course, there is a downside. I have had to give up my swanky apartment in the city
centre.
I’m earning a lot less than I used to and just can’t afford the rent. And, on top of that, Maria and I
have split up. It turns out she was keener on my huge salary than on me myself. Never mind!
It would be lovely to hear your news so, whenever you have a moment, drop me a line.
Take care
Mikhail
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, really, so, well, of course, sort of, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 7.48453608247 147% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 4.92783505155 41% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 5.05154639175 198% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.03092783505 132% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 32.9175257732 115% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 26.3917525773 117% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.85567010309 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1172.0 937.175257732 125% => OK
No of words: 267.0 206.0 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.38951310861 4.54256449028 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 3.78020617076 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7325530585 2.54303337028 107% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 127.690721649 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610486891386 0.622605031667 98% => OK
syllable_count: 360.0 290.88556701 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.41237113402 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.13402061856 120% => OK
Article: 1.0 0.824742268041 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.83505154639 109% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 1.44329896907 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 12.6804123711 134% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 16.3608247423 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0069198452 44.8134815571 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 68.9411764706 76.5299724578 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7058823529 16.8248392259 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35294117647 4.34317383033 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 14.0 4.29896907216 326% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 2.54639175258 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 7.41237113402 121% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.94845360825 127% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.112924556508 0.216113520407 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0354825929451 0.0766984524023 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.042956181288 0.0603063233224 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0412331102499 0.12726935374 32% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472865532445 0.0580467560999 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.1 8.37731958763 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 81.63 70.7449484536 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 5.6 7.45979381443 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.89 8.71597938144 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 7.59969072165 98% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 41.2886597938 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 8.62886597938 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 8.54432989691 94% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 8.15463917526 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 75.8426966292 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.75 Out of 9
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