Last month you had a holiday overseas where you stayed with some friends. They have just sent you some photos of your holiday. Write a letter to your friends. In your letter thank them for the photos and for the holiday explain why you didnot write each.

Dear Vijay and Rashmi,

Thanks so much for your kind letter and the lovely photos of my holiday in Mumbai. Sorry for the delay in acknowledging your mail, but your package arrived just as I was about to leave town on a business trip. I've just returned to Toronto today.

Looking at the photos brings back so many happy memories of the times we spent together and the wonderful hospitality you extended to me. I felt completely pampered by both of you! You surrounded me with warm friends, good food, amazing sights, great shopping, unforgettable cultural events and laughter-filled evenings. I would have been lost without you. I can't thank you enough.

These good memories gave me an idea. I know you've always wanted to visit Canada. Why don't you plan a holiday and stay with me this summer? The weather is great at that time of year, all tourist sites are open and I could take two weeks off from work. Aside from seeing Toronto, we could drive to Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. I would be thrilled if you could make it.

Thank you both again for the beautiful holiday and the photos which are already up on my wall. Now, I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Warm wishes,
Tanvi

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Average: 8.9 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I've
...about to leave town on a business trip. Ive just returned to Toronto today. Look...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
.... I would have been lost without you. I cant thank you enough. These good memorie...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: you've
...e good memories gave me an idea. I know youve always wanted to visit Canada. Why dont...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ouve always wanted to visit Canada. Why dont you plan a holiday and stay with me thi...
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Line 7, column 312, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a Thousand'.
Suggestion: A Thousand
...ronto, we could drive to Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec Ci...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I'm
...s which are already up on my wall. Now, Im looking forward to hearing from you. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, so

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.48453608247 80% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 4.92783505155 101% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 5.05154639175 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.03092783505 66% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 32.9175257732 94% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 26.3917525773 102% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.85567010309 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1022.0 937.175257732 109% => OK
No of words: 217.0 206.0 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70967741935 4.54256449028 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 3.78020617076 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36148025871 2.54303337028 93% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 127.690721649 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.695852534562 0.622605031667 112% => OK
syllable_count: 304.2 290.88556701 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.41237113402 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.13402061856 88% => OK
Article: 1.0 0.824742268041 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.83505154639 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.463917525773 216% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 1.44329896907 69% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 12.6804123711 126% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 16.3608247423 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.3408105523 44.8134815571 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 63.875 76.5299724578 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.5625 16.8248392259 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0625 4.34317383033 24% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 2.54639175258 236% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 7.41237113402 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.49484536082 268% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.94845360825 101% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.366161028779 0.216113520407 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102912650537 0.0766984524023 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0893345885572 0.0603063233224 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170405643574 0.12726935374 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101380161756 0.0580467560999 175% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.5 8.37731958763 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.2 70.7449484536 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.0 7.45979381443 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.45 8.71597938144 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 7.59969072165 99% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 41.2886597938 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 8.62886597938 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 8.54432989691 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 8.15463917526 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.