Then I wondered - how would Charles Dickens score? I copied and pasted a paragraph from 'A Tale of Two Cities' and was astonished to see that he only hit 31% and the comment 'poor - needs revision'. Dickens failed majorly on wordiness - imagine! I then ran a passage from 'Mansfield Park' through. Jane Austen did rather better than Dickens as she scored 61% and got 'weak - needs revision'.
So Final Scores were:
1. Ganching - adequate
2. Nelly - adequate
3. Jane Austen - weak
4. Former Boss - weak
5. Charles Dickens - poor
4 comments:
I got horrifically bad results for my blog posts. I'd say I'd try harder in future, but instead I think I'll blame thon grammar website for being pedantic.
Or maybe for trying to persuade under-confident types to sign up for the paying version. I know what Charles Dickens would have said, "Humbug!"
By ex-boss is still crap at writing
Both Charles and Jane wrote in an era when there was more time to write and more time to read. I had a college English professor tell me I write at a high school level...I'll have to try your grammar site!
Tell us your score!
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