In the reading passage, the author quotes three reasons to sell Amtrak to private company from many critics, which entirely contradicts the main idea of the lecturer.
First of all,accoring to the passage, the government loses money on many Amtrak rountes due to underuse in many remote and less populated areas.Even if the speaker admits that there are some remote and less populated areas cause undeuse problem to Amtrak, she still disagrees that those underused routes should be cut. Because the Amtrak is non-profit program and these people who live in the remote areas have as much rights for government service as others cites do.
Secondly, the reading passage indicates that it is unfair for government to invest the Amatrak instead of airline or other companies. However, the speakers totally disproves this point by saying that government did many investment by various ways to airline, such as provide the money for the airport building, trainning officers and weather satelines, which all beneficial for airlines. Besides, the airlines can survive without government's funding.
Lastly, while the critics in the passage suggest that the government should invest highway system because more people own cars and they are prefer to use cars than trains, the speaker in the lecture argues that this trend results from out of date train service. If the train is fast and convinient, there should be more people use it. For example, in Japan and Europe, the trains are popular because their high-speed and better service. Therefore, the speaker suggests that the government should invest more money in Antrak to improve the service.
To sum up, the speaker in the lectures refutes all three reasons given in the passage that to sell Amtrak to private company. Instead, she asks for more money to improve the service of the train.
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- Amtrak is an intercity train service currently owned by the United States government There are a number of critics who believe that the government should not own Amtrak and that Amtrak should be sold to a privately owned company These critics put forward 80
- Some companies in the United States have developed quot wellness quot programs that give rewards or incentives to employees for achieving certain health related goals such as stopping smoking or losing weight The rewards and incentives include cash pr 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement In the past it was easier to identify what type of career or job would lead to a secure successful future Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 70
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement The knowledge we gain from personal experiences is more valuable than the knowledge we gain from books Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer Do not use memorized examples 85
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 13, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , accoring
...ain idea of the lecturer. First of all,accoring to the passage, the government loses mo...
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Line 2, column 69, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun Amtrak seems to be countable; consider using: 'many '.
Suggestion: many
... passage, the government loses money on many Amtrak rountes due to underuse in many remote ...
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Line 2, column 145, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Even
...in many remote and less populated areas.Even if the speaker admits that there are so...
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Line 2, column 415, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...le who live in the remote areas have as much rights for government service as others...
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Line 4, column 141, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'preferred'.
Suggestion: preferred
...cause more people own cars and they are prefer to use cars than trains, the speaker in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, for example, such as, first of all, to sum up
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 : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1539.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41232713831 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546666666667 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.9400382926 49.2860985944 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.25 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.75 7.06452816374 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256909070863 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0870028260525 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0423873945681 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123965331738 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451754273884 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.