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Figures per main clause (MC) are actually per 100 MC.*

Rec No Total W W
/MC
MC Long MC Short MC Var TSC /MC % W inPP Inf /MC Gn /MC Gve /MC App 
/MC
Avg   322 21.2 56  7 65 72  45 17.3 7.3  18.2 16.0 
N01 Austen, Pride 307 12.3 79 1 94 68 32 24.0 16.0 4.0 0
N02 Dickens, Tale 334 13.9 37 5 32 25 51 4.2 16.7 4.2 4.2
N03 Hawthorne, Scarlet 345 43.1 72 15 41 175 53 50.0   37.5 12.5
N04 James, "Daisy Miller" 332 33.2 72 13 64 90 62 10.0   50.0 60.0
N05 Tolstoy, Anna K 308 17.1 46 5 73 50 41 5.6 11.1 11.1 16.7
N06 Twain, Tom Sawyer 305 7.6 30 1 85 23 33 10.0   2.5 2.5

* This not only eliminates decimal points and place-holding zeroes, but it also allows us to say, for example, that if the figure of TSC/MC is six, then, assuming that the clauses are distributed evenly, six per cent of the main clause have subordinate clauses. Zeroes have been eliminated from the table because they simply add clutter.