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  2. Sentence length - Wikipedia

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    Sentence length may refer to: In linguistics, the length of a Sentence (linguistics) In penology, the length of a Sentence (law) In music, the length of a Sentence ...

  3. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Another definition of "sentence length" is the number of clauses in the sentence, whereas the "clause length" is the number of phones in the clause. [ 12 ] Research by Erik Schils and Pieter de Haan by sampling five texts showed that two adjacent sentences are more likely to have similar lengths than two non-adjacent sentences, and almost ...

  4. Menzerath's law - Wikipedia

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    More examples are on the German Wikipedia pages on phoneme duration, syllable duration, word length, clause length, and sentence length. This law also seems to hold true for at least a subclass of Japanese Kanji characters. [14]

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    In Wikipedia, the lead section is an introduction to an article and a summary of its most important contents. It is located at the beginning of the article, before the table of contents and the first heading. It is not a news-style lead or "lede" paragraph. The average Wikipedia visit is a few minutes long. [1]

  6. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

  7. Gunning fog index - Wikipedia

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    Select a passage (such as one or more full paragraphs) of around 100 words. Do not omit any sentences; Determine the average sentence length. (Divide the number of words by the number of sentences.); Count the "complex" words consisting of three or more syllables. Do not include proper nouns, familiar jargon, or compound words.

  8. Fluency - Wikipedia

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    Researchers have measured by length of the composition (especially under timed conditions), words produced per minute, sentence length, or words per clause. Ratio measures (e.g., words per clause, words per sentence, and words per error-free sentence) have historically been most valid and reliable. [7]

  9. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    This Book Is the Longest Sentence Ever Written and Then Published (2020), by humor writer Dave Cowen, consists of one sentence that runs for 111,111 words, and is a stream of consciousness memoir [9] [10] [11]