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- : INDEX Version 2.0 Copyright (c) 1985 Clarkson Software - WDH
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- .and .but .or .for .yet .so 1
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- .#CCONJ = #COUNT * 4
- .#CCONJ = #CCONJ / 10
- ..word
- :.
- .because .since .while .when .which .that .if .although .though 1
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- ..calc
- .#SUB = #COUNT * 4
- ..word
- :.
- .is .are .was .were .am .have .has .had .will .shall 1
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- ..calc
- .#HELPING = #COUNT * 2
- ..word
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- .can .would .should .may .might .could .did .do 1
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- ..calc
- .#MODAL = #COUNT * 4
- ..WORD
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- .dont .isnt .arent .cant .cannot .couldnt .not .no .none .neither .nor .wouldnt
- .wont .shouldnt .cannot 1
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- ..calc
- .#NEG1 = #COUNT
- .#NEG = #COUNT * 5
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- .1 3
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- ..calc
- .#SWORDS = #COUNT / 2
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- .Mr. .Mrs. .Ms .I.E. .Dr. .P.O. .A.M. .P.M. .Inc. .Etc.
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- .#SENTENCES1 = #COUNT
- .#SENTENCES2 = #SENTENCES1 + #CCONJ
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- .1 50
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- .#WORDS = #COUNT
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- .8 1000
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- ..calc
- .#X = #COUNT + #WORDS - #SWORDS + #HELPING + #MODAL + #NEG + #SUB
- .#IND = #X / #SENTENCES2
- .#ADJUST = #IND * 7
- .#B = #ADJUST / 10
- ..type
- :#B #B #B #B #B #B Basic Style (BS) Index = #B #B #B #B #B #B #B
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- Primer Prose Easy Readable Difficult Very Difficult
- 1-5 6-10 10-14 15-18 19 and above
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- Readability: Simple words in concise sentences make for readable prose.
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- ..case
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- .#SLENGTH
- .1 999
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- ..word
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- .B .B .JC .CLARKSON .A .About .Above .Across .Act .Add .After .Again .Against
- .Age .Ago .Air .All .Almost .Alone .Along .Already .Also .Always .Am .America
- .American .Americans .Among .An .And .Another .Answer .Any .Anything .Appear
- .Are .Arm .Army .Around .As .Ask .At .Away .Back .Bank .Be .Became .Because
- .Become .Been .Before .Began .Begin .Being .Believe .Best .Better .Between
- .Big .Bill .Bills .Body .Bodies .Book .Books .Both .Boy .boys .Bring .brings
- .Brought .Built .Business .Businesses .But .By .Call .Came .Can .Car .Cars
- .Care .Carry .Carries .Case .Cases .Cause .Chance .Chances .Change .Child
- .Children .City .Cities .Close .Color .Colors .Come .Comes .Coming .Company
- .Companies .Condition .Conditions .Consider .Considers .Continue .Continues
- .Cost .Costs .Could .Country .Countries .Course .Courses .Court .Courts .Cover
- .Covers .Cry .Cries .Cut .Cuts .Day .Days .Dear .Demand .Demands .Did .Die
- .Dies .Different .Do .Doctor .Doctors .Does .Dollar .Dollars .Done .Dont .Door
- .Doors .Down .Dress .Dresses .Drop .Drops .During .Each .Early .Either .End
- .Enough .Even .Evening .Evenings .Ever .Every .Everything .Eye .Eyes .Face
- .Faces .Fact .Facts .Fall .Falls .Family .Families .Far .Father .Fathers .Fear
- .Fears .Feel .Feels .Feet .Felt .Few .Fight .Figure .Fill .Fills .Find .Finds
- .Fine .Fires .Fire .First .Five .Follow .Food .For .Force .Found .Four .Friend
- .Friends .From .Front .Full .Gardens .Gardens .Gave .Get .Girl .Girls .Give
- .Gives .Given .Go .Goes .God .Gone .Good .Got .Government .Great .Green .Had
- .Half .Hand .Hands .Happen .Happens .Happy .Hard .Has .Have .He .Head .Heads
- .Hear .Hears .Heard .Heart .Hearts .Held .Help .Her .Here .Herself .High
- .Highs .Him .Himself .His .Hold .Holds .Home .Homes .Hope .Hopes .Horse
- .Hourses .Hours .Hour .Hours .House .Houses .How .However .Human .Humans
- .Hundred .Hundreds .Husband .Husbands .I .Idea .Ideas .If .Ill .Important .In
- .Increase .Increases .Interest .Interests .Into .Is .It .Its .Iteslf .Just
- .Keep .Keeps .Kept .Kind .Kinds .King .Kings .Knew .Know .Knows .Labor .Labors
- .Lady .Ladies .Land .Lands .Large .Last .Lasts .Late .Laugh .Laughs .Law .Laws
- .Learn .Learns .Least .Leave .Leaves .Left .Less .Let .Lets .Letter .Letters
- .Lie .Lies .Life .Light .Lights .Like .Likes .Line .Lines .Little .Live .Lives
- .Long .Longs .Look .Looks .Lost .Love .Loves .Low .Lows .Made .Make .Makes
- .Man .Many .Mark .Marks .Marry .Marries .Matter .Matters .May .Me .Mean .Means
- .Men .Might .Mile .Miles .Mind .Minds .Miss .Misses .Moment .Moments .Money
- .Monies .Month .Months .More .Morning .Mornings .Most .Mother .Mothers .Move
- .Moves .Mr .Mrs .Much .Must .My .Myself .Name .Names .National .Near .Nears
- .Need .Needs .Never .New .Next .Nights .No .Nor .Not .Note .Notes .Nothing
- .Now .Number .Numbers .Of .Off .Office .Offices .Often .Old .On .Once .One
- .Only .Open .Or .Order .Orders .Other .Our .Out .Over .Own .Paper .Papers
- .Part .Parts .Pass .Pay .People .Perhaps .Person .Picture .Pictures .Place
- .Places .Plan .Plans .Plant .Plants .Play .Plays .Point .Points .Poor
- .Possible .Power .Powers .Present .Presents .President .Presidents .Price
- .Prices .Produce .Produces .Public .Put .Puts .Question .Questions .Quite
- .Rather .Reach .Reaches .Read .Reads .Real .Reason .Reasons .Receive .Receives
- .Red .Remain .Remains .Remember .Remembers .Rest .Rests .Result .Results
- .Return .Returns .Right .Rights .River .Rivers .Road .Roads .Room .Rooms
- .Round .Run .Runs .Said .Same .Sat .Saw .Say .School .Schools .Sea .Seas
- .Second .Seconds .See .Sees .Seem .Seems .Serve .Serves .Set .Sets .Several
- .Shall .She .Ship .Ships .Should .Show .Shows .Side .Sides .Since .Sir .Small
- .Smile .Smiles .So .Some .Something .Son .Sons .Soon .Sort .Sorts .Sound
- .Sounds .Speak .Speaks .Stand .Stands .Start .Starts .State .States .Step
- .Steps .Still .Stood .Stop .Stops .Story .Stories .Street .Streets .Strong
- .Such .Sun .Suns .Supply .Supplies .Suppose .Supposes .Sure .System .Systems
- .Table .Tables .Take .Takes .Taken .Talk .Talks .Tell .Tells .Ten .Tens .Than
- .That .The .Their .Them .Themselves .Then .There .These .They .Thing .Things
- .Think .Thinks .This .Those .Though .Thought .Thoughts .Thousand .Thousands
- .Three .Through .Thus .Time .Times .To .Today .Todays .Together .Told .Too
- .Took .Toward .Towns .Tree .Trees .Tried .True .Try .Tries .Turn .Turns
- .Twenty .Two .Under .Until .Up .Upon .Us .Use .Very .Voice .Voices .Wait .Walk
- .Walks .Wall .Walls .Want .War .Wars .Was .Washington .Watch .Watches .Water
- .Waters .Way .We .Week .Weeks .Well .Wells .Went .Were .What .When .Where
- .Whether .Which .While .White .Who .Whole .Whom .Whose .Why .Wife .Will .Wind
- .Winds .Window .Windows .Wish .With .Within .Without .Woman .Women .Wonder
- .Wonders .Word .Words .Work .Works .World .Worlds .Would .Write .Writes .Wrong
- .Wrongs .Year .Years .Yes .Yet .You .Young .Your 1
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- .#WORDLIST = #COUNT
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- .1 50
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- ..calc
- .#TOTAL = #COUNT
- .#X = #WORDLIST * 100
- .#PERCENT = #X / #TOTAL
- .#AV = #TOTAL / #SENTENCES1
- ..HISTO
- : Sentences
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- Total words = #TOTAL
- Total sentences = #SENTENCES1
- Average words per sentence = #AV
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- Longest sentence = #SLENGTH
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- (Sentences of more than 29 words tend to be difficult to read.)
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- The following histogram allows you to compare sentence lengths.
- Variation in sentence length makes for a livelier style.
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- line sent
- no. length (Each asterisk represents one word.)
- .Dr .Mr .Mrs .Ms .i.e
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- Diction
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- Of the #TOTAL words in the text #WORDLIST are from among 500 the most
- common English words. The following list shows the eight words occurring most
- frequently in the text (excluding the 500 most common). Study the list to
- discover careless repetition.
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- freq. word
- .CLARKSON
- .P .B .JC .A .About .Above .Across .Act .Add .After .Again .Against .Age .Ago
- .Air .All .Almost .Alone .Along .Already .Also .Always .Am .America .American
- .Americans .Among .An .And .Another .Answer .Any .Anything .Appear .Are .Arm
- .Army .Around .As .Ask .At .Away .Back .Bank .Be .Became .Because .Become .Been
- .Before .Began .Begin .Being .Believe .Best .Better .Between .Big .Bill .Bills
- .Body .Bodies .Book .Books .Both .Boy .boys .Bring .brings .Brought .Built
- .Business .Businesses .But .By .Call .Came .Can .Car .Cars .Care .Carry
- .Carries .Case .Cases .Cause .Chance .Chances .Change .Child .Children .City
- .Cities .Close .Color .Colors .Come .Comes .Coming .Company .Companies
- .Condition .Conditions .Consider .Considers .Continue .Continues .Cost .Costs
- .Could .Country .Countries .Course .Courses .Court .Courts .Cover .Covers .Cry
- .Cries .Cut .Cuts .Day .Days .Dear .Demand .Demands .Did .Die .Dies .Different
- .Do .Doctor .Doctors .Does .Dollar .Dollars .Done .Dont .Door .Doors .Down
- .Dress .Dresses .Drop .Drops .During .Each .Early .Either .End .Enough .Even
- .Evening .Evenings .Ever .Every .Everything .Eye .Eyes .Face .Faces .Fact
- .Facts .Fall .Falls .Family .Families .Far .Father .Fathers .Fear .Fears .Feel
- .Feels .Feet .Felt .Few .Fight .Figure .Fill .Fills .Find .Finds .Fine .Fires
- .Fire .First .Five .Follow .Food .For .Force .Found .Four .Friend .Friends
- .From .Front .Full .Gardens .Gardens .Gave .Get .Girl .Girls .Give .Gives
- .Given .Go .Goes .God .Gone .Good .Got .Government .Great .Green .Had .Half
- .Hand .Hands .Happen .Happens .Happy .Hard .Has .Have .He .Head .Heads .Hear
- .Hears .Heard .Heart .Hearts .Held .Help .Her .Here .Herself .High .Highs .Him
- .Himself .His .Hold .Holds .Home .Homes .Hope .Hopes .Horse .Hourses .Hours
- .Hour .Hours .House .Houses .How .However .Human .Humans .Hundred .Hundreds
- .Husband .Husbands .I .Idea .Ideas .If .Ill .Important .In .Increase .Increases
- .Interest .Interests .Into .Is .It .Its .Iteslf .Just .Keep .Keeps .Kept .Kind
- .Kinds .King .Kings .Knew .Know .Knows .Labor .Labors .Lady .Ladies .Land
- .Lands .Large .Last .Lasts .Late .Laugh .Laughs .Law .Laws .Learn .Learns
- .Least .Leave .Leaves .Left .Less .Let .Lets .Letter .Letters .Lie .Lies .Life
- .Light .Lights .Like .Likes .Line .Lines .Little .Live .Lives .Long .Longs
- .Look .Looks .Lost .Love .Loves .Low .Lows .Made .Make .Makes .Man .Many .Mark
- .Marks .Marry .Marries .Matter .Matters .May .Me .Mean .Means .Men .Might
- .Mile .Miles .Mind .Minds .Miss .Misses .Moment .Moments .Money .Monies .Month
- .Months .More .Morning .Mornings .Most .Mother .Mothers .Move .Moves .Mr .Mrs
- .Much .Must .My .Myself .Name .Names .National .Near .Nears .Need .Needs
- .Never .New .Next .Nights .No .Nor .Not .Note .Notes .Nothing .Now .Number
- .Numbers .Of .Off .Office .Offices .Often .Old .On .Once .One .Only .Open .Or
- .Order .Orders .Other .Our .Out .Over .Own .Paper .Papers .Part .Parts .Pass
- .Pay .People .Perhaps .Person .Picture .Pictures .Place .Places .Plan .Plans
- .Plant .Plants .Play .Plays .Point .Points .Poor .Possible .Power .Powers
- .Present .Presents .President .Presidents .Price .Prices .Produce .Produces
- .Public .Put .Puts .Question .Questions .Quite .Rather .Reach .Reaches .Read
- .Reads .Real .Reason .Reasons .Receive .Receives .Red .Remain .Remains
- .Remember .Remembers .Rest .Rests .Result .Results .Return .Returns .Right
- .Rights .River .Rivers .Road .Roads .Room .Rooms .Round .Run .Runs .Said .Same
- .Sat .Saw .Say .School .Schools .Sea .Seas .Second .Seconds .See .Sees .Seem
- .Seems .Serve .Serves .Set .Sets .Several .Shall .She .Ship .Ships .Should
- .Show .Shows .Side .Sides .Since .Sir .Small .Smile .Smiles .So .Some
- .Something .Son .Sons .Soon .Sort .Sorts .Sound .Sounds .Speak .Speaks .Stand
- .Stands .Start .Starts .State .States .Step .Steps .Still .Stood .Stop .Stops
- .Story .Stories .Street .Streets .Strong .Such .Sun .Suns .Supply .Supplies
- .Suppose .Supposes .Sure .System .Systems .Table .Tables .Take .Takes .Taken
- .Talk .Talks .Tell .Tells .Ten .Tens .Than .That .The .Their .Them .Themselves
- .Then .There .These .They .Thing .Things .Think .Thinks .This .Those .Though
- .Thought .Thoughts .Thousand .Thousands .Three .Through .Thus .Time .Times .To
- .Today .Todays .Together .Told .Too .Took .Toward .Towns .Tree .Trees .Tried
- .True .Try .Tries .Turn .Turns .Twenty .Two .Under .Until .Up .Upon .Us .Use
- .Very .Voice .Voices .Wait .Walk .Walks .Wall .Walls .Want .War .Wars .Was
- .Washington .Watch .Watches .Water .Waters .Way .We .Week .Weeks .Well .Wells
- .Went .Were .What .When .Where .Whether .Which .While .White .Who .Whole .Whom
- .Whose .Why .Wife .Will .Wind .Winds .Window .Windows .Wish .With .Within
- .Without .Woman .Women .Wonder .Wonders .Word .Words .Work .Works .World
- .Worlds .Would .Write .Writes .Wrong .Wrongs .Year .Years .Yes .Yet .You
- .Young .Your 8
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- :The eight most frequently used words (omitting only a handful) are:
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- freq. word
- .a .the .that .and .is .be .are .on .in .to .of .for .by .it .at .was .as
- .were .or .with .an .but .p .t .b .jc 8
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- ..word
- :.
- .about .above .across .after .against .along .among .around .at .before
- .behind .below .beneath .beside .besides .between .beyond .by .concerning
- .despite .down .during .except .excepting .for .from .in .inside .into .like
- .near .of .off .on .onto .out .outside .over .past .regarding .round .since
- .through .throughout .till .to .toward .under .underneath .until .up .upon
- .with .within .without 1
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- ..calc
- .#PREP = #COUNT
- .#PS = #PREP / #SENTENCES1
- ..type
- :Prepositional Phrases:
- The following reports on the number of words that appear
- to be prepositions.
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- Number of prepositions = #PREP
- Number of sentences = #SENTENCES1
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- Prepositions per sentence (average) = #PS
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- If you average 3 or more prepositions per sentence, you probably use too many.
- ..double
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- .that .had
- : Are you sure that you want to use the following word(s) twice in a row?
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