pterosaurs
The main idea of both the passage and the lecture is about whether pterosaurs are capable of powered flight or they are just capable of glide. Considering this, the author states several arguments against powered flight idea .The professor, on the other hand, thinks pterosaurs are capable of powered flight. She categorically denies three mentioned arguments and categorically denies whatever mentioned in the reading through citing each argument's downsides.
First of all, According to the passage, since pterosaurs re cold-blooded animals, they cannot afford the required energy of powered flight by their metabolisms. The lecturer, nevertheless, dismisses the author's view and points out that discoveries recently show that pterosaurs covered with hairs and furs which are like the covering of warm-blooded animals. She notes that warm-blooded animals need to maintain their body temperature in order to do the activities which requires a lot of energy. As a result, these same metabolisms of pterosaurs and warm-blooded animals demonstrate that it is not hard for them to produce the required energy of powered flight.
Second, the passage goes on to mention that since pterosaurs are mostly heavy, they are not able to flap their wings and make powered flight. Nonetheless, the lecturer supports a contradictory view as compared to that presented in the reading. She persists that pterosaurs are unusually light since their bones are hollowed instead of solid. Moreover, she asserts that because of these hollowed bones pterosaurs weigh low enough to have powered flight.
Eventually, the author states that since pterosaurs' bones and muscles are weak and small, they cannot run fast enough to jump high and lunch into air. However, the speaker refutes this idea, pointing out important differences between birds and pterosaurs. She adds that the two light legs of birds are not for walking on the ground and with them birds can readily launch. Additionally, she indicates that pterosaurs use all their four legs for pushing of ground not just for taking off.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 7.48453608247 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 4.92783505155 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 5.05154639175 238% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 3.03092783505 429% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 33.0 32.9175257732 100% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 26.3917525773 174% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 3.85567010309 26% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1751.0 937.175257732 187% => OK
No of words: 326.0 206.0 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37116564417 4.54256449028 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 3.78020617076 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75028184172 2.54303337028 108% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 127.690721649 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536809815951 0.622605031667 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 527.4 290.88556701 181% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.41237113402 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.13402061856 109% => OK
Article: 8.0 0.824742268041 970% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.83505154639 109% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.463917525773 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 1.44329896907 277% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6804123711 118% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 16.3608247423 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 28.1159503959 44.8134815571 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.733333333 76.5299724578 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7333333333 16.8248392259 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53333333333 4.34317383033 173% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 2.54639175258 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 7.41237113402 121% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.49484536082 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.94845360825 76% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300231979039 0.216113520407 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116323687044 0.0766984524023 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0837863218691 0.0603063233224 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195106190024 0.12726935374 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439644939396 0.0580467560999 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 8.37731958763 175% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 70.7449484536 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 3.82989690722 230% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 7.45979381443 154% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 8.71597938144 159% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 7.59969072165 109% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 41.2886597938 182% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 8.62886597938 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 8.54432989691 122% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 8.15463917526 135% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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