The passage mentions about Altruism which is a type of behaviour in which animal sacrifies its own interest for that of another aminal or group of animals. The lecturer refutes the points mentioned in the passage.
Firstly, the passage gives the examples of altruism abound in both humans and other mammals where humans donates body organs to family members and even to strangers showing unselfish act. However, the lecturer contends about this unselfish act as they receive appreciation from people or from strangers that would increase their sense of reward and that can't be considered priceless.
Secondly, about the behaviour of the meerkat, the passage has depicted it's behaviour as sacrifice or as unselfishness which is refuted by the lecturer. As the studied has shown that the meerkat eats before staying guard and and when the predator comes, it's mostly likely to scape after giving alarm since it stays near to its borrow. Moreover, other animals are in danger since the alarm can cause gathering of the meerkat increasing the attention of the predators.
So, in conclusion,this is how the lecturer opposes the points made in the reading passage.
- Young people enjoy life more than older people do.Do you agree or disagree? 70
- Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves. Examples of altruism 76
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 66
- Some young adults want independence from their parents as soon as possible. Other young adults prefer to live with their families for a longer time. Which of these situations do you think is better? 70
- Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in 76
Grammar and spelling errors:
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The passage mentions about Altruism which is a type of behaviour in...
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...increase their sense of reward and that cant be considered priceless. Secondly, abo...
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...t the meerkat eats before staying guard and and when the predator comes, its mostly lik...
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... of the predators. So, in conclusion,this is how the lecturer opposes the points ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 976.0 1373.03311258 71% => OK
No of words: 189.0 270.72406181 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16402116402 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59697286809 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.608465608466 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 300.6 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.639894829 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.0 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.625 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.25 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.217027859425 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0877479499894 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.13733997244 0.0662205650399 207% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126776903221 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.13630441818 0.0443174109184 308% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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