Grammatical Comparison

Professional
Student

# of words
935
529

# of sentences
50
120

Longest sentence
49
41

Shortest sentence
6
5

Avg. sentence length
28
13

<10 words over the avg. length
3
4

% of sentences over the avg. length
6%
3%

>5 words below the avg. length
22
2

% of sentences below the avg. length
44%
2%

Paragraph length
- longest paragraph
3
8

- shortest paragraph
1
5

- average paragraph
2
6



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