The article states that paleontologists did not determine with the use of Agnostic's fossils information about: what they ate and how they behaved. The reading defines the Agnostics as a group of marine animals that became extinct millions of years ago. It also provides some different theories about how Agnostics lived. However, the professor in the lecture explains that each of the theories explained in the article has some serious weakness; as a result, he refutes each of the paleontologist's theories.
First, the article claims that the Agnostics may have been a free-swimming predator, who hunted smaller animals that were in the ancient ocean. On the other hand, the professor refutes this point, and he says that other Agnostics lived in the open ocean and had well-developed eyes to hunt. But, the smaller Agnostic animals had smaller eyes, and they could be blind; as a result, they could not prey on other ocean species.
Second, the article explains that Agnostics may have dwelled on the seafloor because other types of primitive animals lived that way too; they would have eaten dead organisms or some bacteria. The professor challenges this theory by explaining that animals that live in the seafloor move fast, and that they are large, so the small animals like the small Agnostic which moved slowly and lived in some specific areas could not have lived in the seafloor.
Finally, the reading indicates that Agnostics were parasites, and they were living on and feeding off large organisms. Nevertheless, the professor casts doubt on this theory; he explains that parasite populations are smaller and limited because they can kill all the organisms that they can use to live off. In addition, the professor says that because of the vast amount of Agnostics fossil found, this last theory that presents the idea that those small animals were parasites is unlikely to be true.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... each of the paleontologists theories. First, the article claims that the Agn...
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...uld not prey on other ocean species. Second, the article explains that Agnost...
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...ould not have lived in the seafloor. Finally, the reading indicates that Agno...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, well, in addition, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10256410256 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56014919591 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49358974359 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.5978394581 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.666666667 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.302610636262 0.272083759551 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129135858984 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718848497728 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19572884607 0.162205337803 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519482407215 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.3589403974 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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