A friend has asked you to babysit on Saturday and wants to know how much you charge per hour for this. Unfortunately, you already have a commitment this weekend and cannot help. However, you free the following weekend.
Write a letter to your friend explaining that you are not able to help this time, but could help later. Explain also what your fee for the service is.
You should write at least 150 words.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You do not need to write your own address.
Dear Kampung Inggris Pare,
Thank you for asking me to babysit for you. As you know I enjoy looking after Anthony and would be happy to help you out. However, this weekend I have a commitment which I cannot break.
My parents are coming to visit and I am going to take them down to the coast as I have always promised to do. They are getting older so I like to spend as much time with them as possible. Also, it is my father's birthday and I want to celebrate with them. I am really sorry that I am not able to help this time, but I am free next weekend and I would be glad to babysit for you the...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 10
No. of Words: 173 200
No. of Characters: 690 1000
No. of Different Words: 107 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.627 4.0
Average Word Length: 3.988 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.093 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 37 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 26 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 10 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 5 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.727 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.836 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.699 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.239 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 4