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SAS Statistics

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Paragraphs 14 14
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Possible wordiness 8 7
Prepositional phrases 205 219
Passive voice 13 12
Relative clauses 19 21
Simple sentences 37 38
Possible sentence fragments 1 3
Possible run-on sentences 8 10
Subject-verb sentence openings 40 37
Prepositional phrase sentence openings 14 15
Dependent clause sentence openings 7 6
Words used more than once 227 221
Weak verbs 28 28
Present tense verbs 97 98
Past tense verbs 32 26
Cliches and jargon 10 10
Possible vague words 21 21
Possible pronoun problems 8 8
Possible dangling modifiers 47 45
Possible misplaced modifiers 13 13
Areas to check for parallelism 43 43