Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text,per the below.
Note that while the walkthrough illustrates that words may be separated by more than one space, you may assume,per the specifications above, that no sentences will contain more than one space in a row.
In senses equivalent to "each",per is typically followed by a singular noun phrase with nodeterminer.
Take one pillper day, not*Take one pillper a day.
The common exception is its use with plural noun phrases, although these are almost always limited to large round numbers such as 100, 1,000, 10,000...
The abortion rate in the U.S. has dropped since 1980 from nearly 30per 1,000 women of childbearing age to less than 20.
In medical senses,per is followed by the name of an orifice in Latin rather than English (for example,per os,per rectum,per vaginam); in the postwar era there has been a continual shift toward preferring an English equivalent, especially for patients as audience but also even for fellow professionals (as medical literature audience):by mouth ororally,rectally,vaginally. (More at Wikipedia atplain language.)
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, inalt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decidedper couldn't becauseper was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmersper was discussing it with agreed with per?
(rare,nonstandard)Them(singular)Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place ofhim andher.
1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, inalt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed withper?
"Kalypso!" I call out asphe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I lovedper.
2006 November 15, Richard Ekins, Dave King,The transgender phenomenon, Sage Publications,→ISBN,→LCCN,LCCHQ77.9.E55 2006, page160:
Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie foundperself able to pursueper attraction to men, provided they related toper as a non-gendered person.
2006, Richard Ekins, Dave King,The transgender phenomenon, Sage Publications,→ISBN,→LCCN,LCCHQ77.9.E55 2006, page160:
Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursueper attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.
In eastern dialects, when the prepositionper is followed by a masculine definite article,elsg,elspl orlospl, it is contracted with it to the formspelsg orpelspl respectively.
When the prepositionper is followed by a masculine definite article,elsg orelspl, it is contracted with it to the formspelsg orpelspl respectively. Ifel would be elided to the forml’ because it is before a word beginning with a vowel, the elision toper l’ takes precedence over contracting topel.
“per”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03
per is followed by a noun in either the accusative or dative case. No semantic distinction is made between the cases here. Examples from Duden:per ersten / erstem Januar, "as of the first of January";per eingeschriebenen / eingeschriebenem Brief, "by registered letter".
(action, lawsuit):per in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
(per, divided by):per in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
When followed by the definite article,per can be combined with the article to give the following combined forms (old-fashioned, very rarely used, except forpel,pei):
“per”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“per”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[3], London:Macmillan and Co.
to bring a stream of water through the garden:aquam ducere per hortum
to cut one's way (through the enemies' ranks):ferro viam facere (per confertos hostes)
to spread over the whole body:per totum corpus diffundi
to pass a thing from hand to hand:de manu in manus orper manus tradere aliquid
in a dream:per somnum, in somnis
in a dream:per quietem, in quiete
under the pretext, pretence of..:per causam (with Gen.)
when occasion offers; as opportunity occurs:per occasionem
a report is spreading imperceptibly:fama serpit (per urbem)
to be in every one's mouth:per omnium ora ferri
to pass one's life in luxury and idleness:per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere
to take a false step:per errorem labi, or simplylabi
I said it in jest:haec iocatus sum, per iocum dixi
to correspond with some one:colloqui cum aliquo per litteras
apparently; to look at:per speciem (alicuius rei)
under pretext, pretence of..:per simulationem, simulatione alicuius rei
by craft:per dolum (B. G. 4. 13)
in sport, mockery:per ludibrium
men exempt from service owing to age:qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt oraetate ad bellum inutiles
to transfix, pierce a man's breast with one's sword:gladio aliquem per pectus transfigere (Liv. 2. 46)
to force a way, a passage:iter tentare per vim (cf. sect. II. 3)
to break through the enemy's centre:per medios hostes (mediam hostium aciem) perrumpere
to lead some one in triumph:per triumphum (in triumpho) aliquem ducere
that is self-evident, goes without saying:hoc per se intellegitur
I have no objection:per me licet
per inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “փոր”, inHayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
Paspati, Alexandre G. (1870) “per”, inÉtudes sur les Tchinghianés; ou, Bohémiens de l'Empire ottoman (in French), Constantinople: Impr. A. Koroméla,page422
