You are planning to stay with a friend in an English speaking country. You are writing to
your friend to find out some additional information. In your letter ask the following
questions:
• How long should you plan to stay for
• What you should bring with you
• What you would like to do there
There is no need to include names and addresses.
Hi Anya,
I hope you are well right there. I am writing to inform you about my planned trip to come and stay to your place. Indeed, with this letter, I want to make sure several details that you and I should concern before this trip is taken, so both you and I know what we should have been done.
Firstly, due largely to having a 6-month school holiday, starting from 1st April to 31st October 2014, I have a plan to stay for 5 months. We have been talking about this plan, but I should re-inform you because there is a change for the schedule, from 10 months to 5 months, regarding the school ...
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flaws:
No. of Words: 299 200
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 10
No. of Words: 299 200
No. of Characters: 1219 1000
No. of Different Words: 158 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.158 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.077 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.171 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 67 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 40 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 20 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 10 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.083 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.636 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.191 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4