Table 41.2 Summary of comparison of three sets of documents
H | F | W | ||
Spelling | ||||
1.1 | Errors in individual words | + | + | - |
1.2 | Capitals with common nouns | + | + | - |
1.3 | Small letters with proper nouns | + | + | - |
1.4 | Intrusive apostrophe | + | + | - |
Grammatical | ||||
morphology | ||||
2.1 | The verb: present tense | + | + | - |
2.2 | The verb: past tense | + | + | - |
Syntax | ||||
3.1 | Sentence structure | + | + | - |
3.2 | Disrupted structures | + | + | - |
Punctuation | ||||
4.1 | Comma: with clause was | + | + | - |
4.2 | Comma: in series | + | + | - |
4.3 | Asides | + | + | - |
4.4 | Capitals after full stops | + | + | - |
Key: + feature present in sub-corpus of texts.
- feature not present in sub-corpus of texts.
Source: from Eagleson 1994: 373.