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"Actually I'm very impressed at the writer's ability to churn out so many grammatical sentences containing a good variety of words, and yet consistently evade any discernible meaning."
This is really good!
I'm not familiar with the usage "obviate against" in the student's text. The idea seems worthwhile and even simple, if the words could be untangled.
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How do you access this function in Word?
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In Word click on Tools/click on Options/select the Grammar and Spelling tab/click the Show readability statistics box. Go back and run a spelling and grammar check.
The Flesch Reading Ease is on a scale of 0-100. The higher the score the more readable it is. Minimum scores of about 60 or 70 are desirable. The Flesch-Kinkaid Grade Level is the minimum grade lavel required to have any hope of making sense out of the text and represents number of years of formal education attained. This thang scored a Flesch Reading Ease of 9.1 and a Flesch-Kinkaid Grade Level of 12.0.
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May I humbly suggest a style problem in the poster's first sentence. One....sent....their paper.
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In reply to:
May I humbly suggest a style problem in the poster's first sentence. One....sent....their paper.
I guess you mean the apparent disagreement between the singular "one" and the plural "their." We had a long discussion on this awhile back, concerning the use of "their" as a gender-neutral, singular pronoun alongside "his" and "her." Anyone have that link?
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We had a long discussion on this awhile back, concerning the use of "their" as a gender-neutral, singular pronoun alongside "his" and "her."
Y'all know where I'd stand on this issue, so I'll just stay out of it. Y'all can take my comments as read.
FWIW, MSWord 2000 doesn't seem to have caught this one.
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Ask him if he wishes to have it copyrighted as a work of artistic merit, or would he prefer to see it patented as being a useful article.
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May I humbly suggest a style problem in the poster's first sentence. One....sent....their paper.
unless one student, representing the group, sent in a communal paper written by the whole class
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Thanks, Faldage. Another computer-related addiction takes wing tonight.
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