The reading passage states three reasons that endorse the migration of Edmontosaurus which used to live in North Slope, whereas the lecture points out that the explanation are not convincing.
Firstly, the author insists that plants are the major source of food of Edmontosaurus, and plants could not grow during the North Slope winter, so they had to migrate to find food. The professor, however, argues that the dinosaurs did not need search for food since one hundred million years ago the temperature of North Slope winter was warmer than it is today. And the sunshine was long enough for plants to thrive, as a result, the dinosaurs could easily survive with such a ample nutrition.
Secondly, the reading says that fossil evidences suggest that edmontosaurs lived in herds, therefore, like many other animals who also live in herds they presumable would migrate. In contrast, the speaker reckons that creatures sometime lived in herds for other reasons such as, extra protection. In addition, there is a kind of plant eater live in Western America, and they also live in herds, nevertheless, they never migrate.
Lastly, the reading states that the physical structures of edmontosaurs allowed them to migrate through long distance. On the contrary, the lecture deems that although the adult edmontosaurs were capable of traveling long distance, the juveniles were too young to support such a long journey. In this way, the herds need to wait for these youngsters and not able to migrate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 477, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...inosaurs could easily survive with such a ample nutrition. Secondly, the readi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, lastly, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, in addition, in contrast, kind of, such as, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1258.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13469387755 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59607238665 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587755102041 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 377.1 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4103092333 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.8 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 16.7 7.06452816374 236% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.338128358886 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120960128833 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0478178549969 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17898810687 0.162205337803 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0582342402079 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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