The main idea of both the reading and the lecture is about Amtrak and whether United States government should own it or not. The author of the passage, by providing three reasons, states that government should not own Amtrak and should sell it to private companies. The lecturer, however, rejects these reasons and says that it is not true and government should not pass the ownership of Amtrak to private companies for the following reasons.
First of all, the writer of the article points out that Amtrak operates on routes that there is not enough passengers there, hence the government loses money because they have to maintain these routes. The professor, on the other hand, refuses this and claims that the main purpose of the Amtrak is not to take profit. Instead Amtrak wants to provide transportation service to the citizens, since all the citizens living in the united states have right to access to cheap transportation and government should provide these services for all the citizens.
Second of all, the writer of the essay posits that it is unfair that government support Amtrak while other private sectors like airlines can't compete with Amtrak. The speaker, on the contrary, refutes this idea and states that government support airlines too and they help airlines with their control tower and offices and also satellites for their needs and communications. So, these airlines would not even exist without supports of the government.
Thirdly, the writer of the text avers that government should maintain and improve roads and highway infrastructures instead of financing Amtrak, because people rarely use railway for traveling. The professor, conversely, rebuts this also and explains that railway inrastructure and systems are out of date and that is the reason why people prefer traveling with private cars and if government invest money in railway system, like japan, people would use railway for their traveling because in this way it will be faster and affordable and attractive to citizens.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 267, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...nd should sell it to private companies. The lecturer, however, rejects these reason...
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Line 2, column 319, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
...se of the Amtrak is not to take profit. Instead Amtrak wants to provide transportation ...
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Line 3, column 138, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ile other private sectors like airlines cant compete with Amtrak. The speaker, on th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, hence, however, if, second, so, third, thirdly, while, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 7.30242825607 288% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 327.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16819571865 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5794159856 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489296636086 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 509.4 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.8497469459 49.2860985944 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.636363636 110.228320801 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7272727273 21.698381199 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.0909090909 7.06452816374 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344794147178 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1516481965 0.0996497079465 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107228141809 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217390544699 0.162205337803 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.137769109162 0.0443174109184 311% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 13.3589403974 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 53.8541721854 78% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.3 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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