Reader Version 1.2 for DOS 
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The following example consists of extracts from various kinds of real text, including personal correspondence, business memos and magazine articles. (The last sentence of all comes, in fact, from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer".)
Of course such a short example is bound to appear rather contrived, but you might like to read through it at your normal proof-reading speed, and note what problems you spot.
Original Text
To economize any further is an impossiblity. They were using wood to supplememt their diet. What were the comprative figures for sales revenue vs direct costs? Which products show greatest difference betwleen list and quotation? Do not understimate actual and pudgeted unit costs for product 1. Thank your for your recent inquiry. May I mention that you did not write to tell me that the request had be refused. One of of our best managers will be coming tomorrow. I thought you might me interested. How things? I gather from Joe that you have send him the design for the letterhead. Might I came down sometime and talk to you about these things when you get back? The program is readily accessible to ordinary mortals, but it does have it's own logic. With a little imagination, the sound system may be all the you need to hear from your computer. Its much easier and less messy than a word processor. With the boy nearly in a coma, the local staff, unable to make a diagnoses, sent him posthaste to Boston. The advantages of this is that he can be attended to within 2 hours. Where is Bill and Mary? John and his motorcycle, a Honda, rides the country lanes all day. However our most important activity are twice yearly weekend seminars. There house is an old country estate. May be the prospect of a fall in interest rates will encourage more people to buy houses. It can a two way street - one of your dealers I spoke to yesterday specializes in Estate Agents. What is required is a list of houses and a list of tenants (which may of may not be the same as the owners). If conventions, shortened to eliminate the ballyhoo, where held in September, we could enjoy a non-political summer. Alas, their are now even fewer people who think this way. The problem is what goes where the one to many and many to many relationships. "Well, the things is ours, anyway, ain't they?"
Reader's report
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