One of your pen pals will shortly be visiting your city. For some reasons, you cannot manage to meet him at the airport on time. Write a letter asking him to wait for you at the airport and tell him how to identify you.
Dear Andy,
I was really surprised on receiving the news that you would be visiting Chennai next week all the way from England to explore the culture and tradition of this ancient city where the world's oldest living language known as 'Tamil' is spoken. I was waiting for a long time for this precious moment to see you in person and now the time has come for that.
I am very pleased to receive you at Chennai international airport on coming Friday at 4pm. Unfortunately, I am really sorry to say that I would be having an important business meet at my company on that specific date until 5pm in...
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Score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 10
No. of Words: 247 200
No. of Characters: 1039 1000
No. of Different Words: 147 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.964 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.206 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.246 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 64 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 47 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 21 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 10 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.583 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.131 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.25 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.396 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.74 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.29 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4