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[ ? ]Readability formulas work best on "connected text"—each sentence ending with proper punctuation.
1. Auto-Detect (default): if your text contains more than 30% lines of text (i.e. sentences without ending punctuation), our system will count lines of text, rather than total sentences, to yield a more accurate readability score.
2. Count Complete Sentences (preferred): count complete sentences only and ignore but count words in the non-sentences. A sentence must end with a period, questionmark, or exclamation mark.
3. Count Text Lines as Sentences: If your text is non-narrative (like poetry) or contains headings, sub-headers, titles, bullets points, etc. then you can choose to count every line of text. Each line of text is counted as a complete sentence.
4. Count Connected Sentences Only: count complete sentences only, and remove non-sentences and the words they contain from your text. Ideal for scoring websites and webpages. X
1. Auto-Detect (default): if your text contains more than 30% lines of text (i.e. sentences without ending punctuation), our system will count lines of text, rather than total sentences, to yield a more accurate readability score.
2. Count Complete Sentences (preferred): count complete sentences only and ignore but count words in the non-sentences. A sentence must end with a period, questionmark, or exclamation mark.
3. Count Text Lines as Sentences: If your text is non-narrative (like poetry) or contains headings, sub-headers, titles, bullets points, etc. then you can choose to count every line of text. Each line of text is counted as a complete sentence.
4. Count Connected Sentences Only: count complete sentences only, and remove non-sentences and the words they contain from your text. Ideal for scoring websites and webpages. X
Inflected Words:
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Choose how you want our system to match inflected words with their base words. Our system will count both base words and their inflections as familiar words; otherwise, to count just the base words as familiar and their inflections as unfamiliar (i.e. difficult words), select "Off."
Basic Inflections (perfect if your text is for young readers below 5th grade):
Advanced Inflections (perfect for college students/adult readers):
Basic Inflections (perfect if your text is for young readers below 5th grade):
- -s/-es for plural nouns (cat → cats, box → boxes)
- -s/-es for third-person singular verbs (he runs, she watches)
- -'s for possessive nouns (dog's bone, girl's book)
- -ed for regular past tense verbs (walk → walked)
- -ing for present participle/gerund (run → running)
- All Basic Inflections, plus:
- -ier to form the comparative degree of adjectives (happy → happier)
- -est to form the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs (big → biggest)
- -er for comparative or derivational endings (tall → taller).
- -'ve, -n't, -'d: have → haven't; he → he'd, I → I've, etc.
Advanced Inflections (perfect for college students/adult readers):
- All Basic & Common Inflections, plus:
- - ance (perform → performance); - ly (happy → happily); - ment (adjust → adjustment); - less (fear → fearless); - ness (kind → kindness); - ers (play → players); - th (grow → growth); - able (love → lovable); - ied (apply → applied); - ism (capital → capitalism); - ary (vision → visionary); - ger (bag → bagger); - ful (joy → joyful); - tion (inform → information); - y (cloud → cloudy); - en (broad → broaden).
Compound Words:
[ ? ]Scoring text readability works best on single words. Our system separates compound words. Ex.: mother-in-law (3 words)
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Proper Nouns:
[ ? ]Readability formulas, especially ones using word lists, find proper nouns as questionable or difficult words. Readers may easily understand your text's proper nouns, but these formulas have no way of knowing. You can count proper nouns as easy words, or let the formulas decide if they are easy or difficult.
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Neutral Words:
[ ? ]We recommend ignoring numbers from your text, unless you want readability formulas to add numbers toward the character count. Because some formulas score character count toward the readability of text, unnecessary characters—like numbers and symbols—can deem a sentence or overall text more difficult to understand.
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[ ? ]Show all adverbs/adjectives in your text.X
OR Show hard adverbs/adjectives [ ? ]Show hard adverbs/adjectives in your text.X
OR Show easy adverbs/adjectives [ ? ]Show easy adverbs/adjectives in your text.X
Count hard words by : Syllables
Hard words in these categories are easy: Proper Nouns [ ? ]Count hard words based on syllable count (most common). A hard word is 3 or more syllables. X
OR Characters [ ? ]Count hard words based on character count (least common). A hard word has 3 or more syllables and over 9 characters. X
[ ? ]Make all Proper Nouns easy words. Ex: "Baltimore" (hard word → easy word) | Ex: "Johnathan McDonald" (hard words → easy words). We underline these words in pink or green dots. X
Inflected Words [ ? ]Words that became hard words through inflections are easy again. Ex: "happily" (hard word) → "happy" (easy word) | Ex: "sentences" (hard word) → "sentence" (easy word). We underline these words in pink or green dots. X
Dale-Chall Words [ ? ]Any hard word found on Dale-Chall's 3000 word list is considered easy. We underline these words in pink or green dots. X
Common Sight Words [ ? ]Any hard word found on Edward Fry's 1000 common Sight Words list is considered easy. We underline these words in pink or green dots. X
Repeat Words [ ? ]Hard words that repeat after their first instance are made easy. (Readers learn the hard word and can now understand it in the rest of the text.) We underline these words in pink or green dots. X
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