One of your pen pals will shortly be visiting your city. For some reasons, you can not manage to meet him at the airport on time.
Write a letter asking him to wait for you at the airport and tell him how to identify you.
You should write at least 150 words.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
Dear Mary,
I am very much looking forward to your visit to my city. Just think: after all these years to writing to each other, we will finally have the chance to meet! However, I regret to inform you that I will not be able to meet you at the airport as soon as you arrive.
The reason is that your flight will arrive early in the morning, and the quickest time I can get to the airport will be about an hour after you land. Please wait for me in the arrival lounge. You should be able to have breakfast there while you wait.
By the way, as we have never met I must tell you how to recogn...
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flaws:
Avg. Sentence Length: 13.083 21.0
No. of Words: 157 200
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: 12 10
No. of Words: 157 200
No. of Characters: 621 1000
No. of Different Words: 99 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.54 4.0
Average Word Length: 3.955 4.6
Word Length SD: 1.953 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 34 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 21 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 8 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 4 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 13.083 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.464 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.752 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.151 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4