You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You have just spent a weekend at a friend’s house. When you returned home, you discovered you have left a coat containing some belongings in his house.
Write a letter to your friend telling him that you left the coat. Tell him what the coat looks like, where you think you left it and what was inside it. Make some suggestions about how to get it back.
You should write at least 150 words.
You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter as follows:
Dear John,
Dear John,
I‛m back at home now after that great weekend at your house. Thanks very much for putting me up. I hope you‛ll be able to come and stay with me some time soon as well.
Unfortunately I left my new coat at your house. Do you remember the dark brown one that I wore when we went walking on Saturday afternoon? It is a New Look coat that goes down to mid-thigh level. It has a black collar, dark brown buttons and large pockets on both sides. I think I left it on the hooks behind your front door. Do you remember we hung up our coats there when we got back from our walk?
It‛s ...
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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: 18 10
No. of Words: 208 200
No. of Characters: 817 1000
No. of Different Words: 127 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.798 4.0
Average Word Length: 3.928 4.6
Word Length SD: 1.939 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 38 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 23 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 10 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 4 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 11.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.112 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.278 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.287 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4