Words | 44-sentence IOS | 40-sentence IOS taken by pilgrims | 38-sentence IOS taken by G4SHS students | |||
Frequency | Percent | Frequency | Percent | Frequency | Percent | |
Adjectives | 46 | 9.9 | 37 | 9.0 | 34 | 8.9 |
Adverbs | 6 | 1.3 | 4 | 1.0 | 3 | 0.8 |
Nouns | 110 | 23.7 | 96 | 23.2 | 93 | 24.5 |
Verbs | 80 | 17.2 | 72 | 17.4 | 65 | 17.1 |
Conjunctions | 38 | 8.2 | 32 | 7.7 | 29 | 7.6 |
Determiners | 43 | 9.2 | 40 | 9.7 | 37 | 9.7 |
Prepositions | 47 | 10.1 | 44 | 10.7 | 40 | 10.5 |
Pronouns | 12 | 2.6 | 11 | 2.7 | 10 | 2.6 |
Syntactic verbs | 6 | 1.3 | 5 | 1.2 | 3 | 0.8 |
Abbreviations | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.3 |
Names | 16 | 3.4 | 16 | 3.9 | 15 | 3.9 |
Para-adverbs | 4 | 0.9 | 4 | 1.0 | 2 | 0.5 |
Particles | 56 | 12.0 | 51 | 12.3 | 48 | 12.6 |
Total | 465 | 100.0 | 413 | 100.0 | 380 | 100.0 |