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Evaluate Equiano's sentence fluency.

The sentence length is generally
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Once, for a few days, I was let out to fit a
vessel, and I had no victuals allowed me by
either party, at last I told my master of this
treatment, and he took me away from it. In
many of the estates, on the different
islands where I used to be sent for rum or
sugar, they would not deliver it to me, or
any other negro; he was therefore obliged
to send a white man along with me to those
places, and then he used to pay him from
fix to ten pisterines a day.
-The Interesting Narrative of the Life
of Olaudah Equiano

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Answer:

1. The sentence lengths are generally long.

2. The sentence structures used are varied

3. The overall passage is natural and flowing.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer:

1. The sentence lengths are generally too long.

2. The sentence structures used are varied

3. The overall passage is natural and flowing.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the sentence, most of the words used are long enough to push the length of the sentneces waaay up. The structures also change a lot, leaving a lot of variety for the reader.

Overall, the passage is smooth, and flows naturally.

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