General Training task 1
You eat at a restaurant every week. However, you found an unsatisfied thing in your last experience. Write a letter to restaurant manager. It should contain:
• Explain your experience
• Say what is wrong with it
• Say how to fix it, and give some suggestions.
Write at least 150 words, begin Dear Mr. Marundut
Dear Mr. Marundut
I am writing this letter to complain about an ungratified moment in your restaurant.
Since five years ago, I have been delighted to choose your restaurant as my family destination to spend our leisure time on weekend. However, there was an incident which altered my view. The matter is one of your waiter who served my table did a fatal mistake because he ignored my wishes for several times. First, he changed my main course order from a beef steak to chicken steak which indignant me. Furthermore, when I told my rejection concerning I have different food on my table, he ...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 10
No. of Words: 185 200
No. of Characters: 903 1000
No. of Different Words: 124 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.688 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.881 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.666 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 67 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 50 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 29 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.818 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.706 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.364 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.407 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.628 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.24 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4