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Comprehensibility ratings are given for 54 concrete and 54 abstract sentences written as actives, passives, and interrogatives. analysis of the ratings showed that the concrete sentences were easier to understand than the abstract sentences, but all three sentence forms were equally comprehensible.
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This research was supported in part by a grant to Edward J. Rowe from the National Research Council of Canada. Lee Ann Montgomery assisted in the data analysis.
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Rowe, E.J., Schurr, B. & Meisinger, D. Comprehensibility ratings of concrete and abstract sentences. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 49–52 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336763
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