sentence length
Words per statement
Sentence length is the number of words or characters in a sentence, often discussed in writing instruction and readability analysis.
Varied sentence length creates rhythm and holds attention—short sentences punch, long ones flow.
Style guides often recommend mixing lengths: Her average sentence length was eighteen words, but she varied from three to forty.
- clauseProvision in agreement
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- verbosityUnnecessary word excess
pacing · brevity · short and sweet · pause · dependent clause · parsing · grade level · reading level · conciseness · run-on · punctuation · phrase · comma · rhythm · clarity · line · cadence · short
- text analyticsword count, character count, reading level, grade level, syllable count
- corpus linguisticscorpus, word counts, word frequency, concordance, n-grams
- text analysistext analysis, bigram, trigram, tokenization, writing style
- crime datacrime trends, arrest rate, incarceration rate, violent crime rate, property crime
- prison recordsinmate number, booking number, parole records, case files, booking form
- prison sentencesprison term, jail time, life without parole, mandatory minimum, doing time
textual unit scope
sentence lengthparagraph length
Size of prose section
word count · character count · syllable count · text length · letter count