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.