Write a letter to your former teacher. In your letterExplain how you heard about his/her retirementDescribe what made him/her such a great teacherSay how your teacher affected your life.

Dear Ms. Smith,

I am writing to send you my best wishes in your upcoming retirement!

I recently ran across my high school friend, Lisa Smith, whom I haven’t seen for many years. She informed me that you would be retiring in May after 40 years of teaching at our high school.

I want you to know how much your teaching impacted me. As you may remember, I struggled in mathematics before I took your class. To be honest, I remember dreading your class on the first day. However, your enthusiasm for the subject matter made me excited as well. I know you saw me struggling sometimes, but you were always encouraging and you helped me learn from my mistakes.

By the end of that school year, I felt confident about math and, to my own surprise, I even enjoyed it! I ended up studying social science in college and graduate school. I regularly rely on statistics to do the work I love. I believe, without your amazing class, I may have never entered this field because I would have been too afraid to do the math.

Thank you for you are the enduring impact you’ve had on my life.

Sincerely,

Jane Smith

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...est wishes in your upcoming retirement! I recently ran across my high school fri...
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Line 7, column 29, Rule ID: YOUR[1]
Message: Did you mean 'you're' or 'you are'?
Suggestion: you're; you are
... school. I want you to know how much your teaching impacted me. As you may remem...
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Line 9, column 228, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ly on statistics to do the work I love. I believe, without your amazing class, I ...
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Line 9, column 356, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ld have been too afraid to do the math. Thank you for you are the enduring impac...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, thus, well

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.48453608247 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 4.92783505155 101% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 5.05154639175 79% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.03092783505 99% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 32.9175257732 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 26.3917525773 91% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.85567010309 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 929.0 937.175257732 99% => OK
No of words: 203.0 206.0 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.5763546798 4.54256449028 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.77462671648 3.78020617076 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53447198722 2.54303337028 100% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 127.690721649 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.665024630542 0.622605031667 107% => OK
syllable_count: 273.6 290.88556701 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.41237113402 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.13402061856 153% => OK
Article: 0.0 0.824742268041 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.83505154639 54% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.463917525773 216% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 1.44329896907 277% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6804123711 95% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 16.3608247423 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7022012071 44.8134815571 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.4166666667 76.5299724578 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9166666667 16.8248392259 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 4.34317383033 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 2.54639175258 157% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 7.41237113402 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.94845360825 25% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2004914297 0.216113520407 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803545605083 0.0766984524023 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0652448977546 0.0603063233224 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112034057328 0.12726935374 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0789741927355 0.0580467560999 136% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.6 8.37731958763 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 80.62 70.7449484536 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.0 7.45979381443 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.99 8.71597938144 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 7.59969072165 98% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 41.2886597938 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 8.62886597938 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 8.54432989691 98% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 8.15463917526 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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