The Hill
March 19, 2016
The study, by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, scored Trump’s grammar at a fifth-grade level. The rest of the candidates’ grammar was scored between sixth- and eighth-grade levels. All candidates performed better when graded on their vocabulary skills. Sanders scored highest in vocab, ranking at the 11th-grade level in the speech he made announcing his candidacy. Trump and Clinton both scored at the eighth-grade level for vocab in the speeches announcing their candidacies. Cruz’s inaugural speech was at the ninth-grade level. “This analysis shows the changes that candidates make in the level of their speech according to the type of speech. It also reflects each
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