The reading and the lecture are about Pterosaurs, which are winged reptile lived during the dinosaurs era. The reading states there are doubts if these winged reptiles could be able to fly and provides three reasons to support this view. However, the lecturer explains that these creatures had the ability to fly and refutes each of the reading thesis.
First of all, the reading claims that Pterosaurs had a slow metabolism because they were cold-blooded, hence, they had not enough energy to fly. However, the professor opposes this point by saying that these animals may have the powerful energy to fly indeed. According to the professor, Pterosaurs had dense hair on their skin like fur, As a result, they could be warm-blooded animals.
Secondly, the reading makes an argument that Pterosaurs were huge, heavy animals like giraffes, thus, they could not be able to be held on the air to fly. On the hand, the lecturer counters this claim by mentioning that Pterosaurs had a light anatomic feature regardless of their size. He clarifies that they have hollowed bones that made them light to fly appropriately.
Thirdly, the reading says that these animals could not take off from the ground to fly because they have weak legs. However, the lecture posits this point by points out that Pterosaurs used their four limbs to push themselves in order to fly. According to the professor, these animals differ from birds, so the reading's argument is not acceptable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 93, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dinosaurs'' or 'dinosaur's'?
Suggestion: dinosaurs'; dinosaur's
...ich are winged reptile lived during the dinosaurs era. The reading states there are doubt...
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Line 4, column 311, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'readings'' or 'reading's'?
Suggestion: readings'; reading's
...these animals differ from birds, so the readings argument is not acceptable.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => 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: 1225.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47731902219 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534693877551 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 368.1 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 17.731014886 49.2860985944 36% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.083333333 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4166666667 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.41666666667 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2896824625 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108597811345 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514947269374 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185058794384 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0640532367522 0.0443174109184 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.