You have a Facebook friend living in another country and s/he is curious to learn about a major news item in your country.
Write a letter to your Facebook friend. In your letter
describe a news story in your country
explain why people are interested in it
say how the story personally relates to you
Dear,
How are you? The last time you wrote you asked about local news items, so I thought I'd fill you in on how Australia has been affected by the horrific tsunami which devastated so many countries around the Indian Ocean.
We first heard the shocking news on Boxing Day (26 December) but no one realised the expansion of the damage or the human toll. It was such an unusual event, something one would only expect to see in a Hollywood film. Australia was affected because we are part of this region, geographically and politically.
Australia has close ties with Indonesia and Thailand, so we are focusing our aid chiefly on those countries. Our Foreign Minister Is there now surveying the damage and key divisions of the Australian army are helping in Indonesia.
A friend of mine is the manager of one of the large resorts in Phuket - the one which was completely inundated. Fortunately, he was holidaying in Europe at the time! Many other Australians were not so lucky.
Trust you are well,
Write soon
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 85, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I'd
...ed about local news items, so I thought Id fill you in on how Australia has been a...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, so, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 7.48453608247 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 4.92783505155 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 5.05154639175 99% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.03092783505 66% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 32.9175257732 49% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 26.3917525773 76% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.85567010309 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 846.0 937.175257732 90% => OK
No of words: 176.0 206.0 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80681818182 4.54256449028 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.78020617076 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64038325536 2.54303337028 104% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 127.690721649 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.693181818182 0.622605031667 111% => OK
syllable_count: 267.3 290.88556701 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.41237113402 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.13402061856 44% => OK
Article: 2.0 0.824742268041 243% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 1.83505154639 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 1.44329896907 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 12.6804123711 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 17.0 16.3608247423 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.2830197896 44.8134815571 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.6 76.5299724578 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 16.8248392259 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.4 4.34317383033 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 2.54639175258 39% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 7.41237113402 40% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 1.49484536082 334% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.94845360825 51% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0766072856121 0.216113520407 35% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0272577546458 0.0766984524023 36% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285767295844 0.0603063233224 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0405104702873 0.12726935374 32% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0362919726273 0.0580467560999 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 8.37731958763 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 70.7449484536 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 7.45979381443 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.32 8.71597938144 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 7.59969072165 110% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 41.2886597938 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 8.62886597938 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 8.54432989691 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 8.15463917526 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.