2 How many words that obscure the meaning.
3 How many words out of their usual place, and whether this alteration makes the statement in any way more interesting or more energetic.
4 Whether a sentence is ambiguous; whether it really means more than one thing or more than the writer intended; whether it can be so read as to mean something different.
5 Whether there is something clear on paper, but ambiguous if spoken loud.
Tests and composition exercises
uit: ABC of reading - Ezra Pound
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