In the argument given above, there are four Assumptions. First stated assumption is that the state is going to devote more money for cleanup of the river as announced. Another unstated assumption is that the river is going to be clean as planned after allocation of budget. Third assumption is stated as “cleaning of the river will attract city dwellers to use river for water increased.” Fourth unstated assumption is that increased flow of city dwellers for recreational activities will demand more funding from government.
I cannot agree completely with the first assumption. We have seen governments stating their plans in big words and working a little if the concern is about environment. Furthermore, some governments are seen working a little and advertising the activity to the maximum possible in order to get credit. My concern regarding second assumption is that the government is not seem to propose a concrete plan for sewage and floodwater disposal. Lack of solid proposal for managing source of contamination of river means that even if the river is going to be clean, waste is going to be added to the same river, and hence river is not going to be clean. Another concern regarding this statement is that any river is not going to be clean and suitable for water sports overnight even if measures are followed against these concerns. This may take few years for rivers to get rid of sewage stored in riverbed and be clean. Thus, this assumption seems fallacious and devoid of any solid support.
Third assumption is that cleaning of river will attract city dwellers for the recreational activities overnight. But it is not going to be so. Even if the river is clean after several efforts, the dwellers are going to have old image of river, dirty and foul smelling. This will prevent the city dwellers to stop coming to the river for recreational activities for few years. Further, even though the city residents have rated water sports as their favourite sport, it is not necessary that they are coming for these activities. Sometimes, people who have seen some form of sports far away from their homeland may keep those activities as their hubby but always fear or hesistate to achieve those hubbies. Maybe water sports is one of such activity for those city residents. Fourth assumption is going to be fallacious if private sector is attracted for business possibilities in water activities and fund may not be needed. Though fallacious, this condition is better than the condition in which fund is needed. However, involvement of private sector may need legislative activities by city government regarding water activities. Under these conditions, authors argument is going to prove unwarranted.
In case the first argument prove unwarranted, the city government should allocate funds first to clean the water in the river. In second argument proves unwarranted, state should plan multiple projects to clean water in the river, prevent mixing of sewage and floodwater to the river simultaneously to achieve goals. In case third argument proves unwarranted, state and city government should make plans to attract residents towards water. Private sector can also be attracted for business possibilities in such activities. And at last, there is no implication if fourth assumption is going to be unwarranted since this condition is going to be better than if the assumption is warranted.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 29 15
No. of Words: 559 350
No. of Characters: 2796 1500
No. of Different Words: 220 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.862 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.002 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.697 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 185 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 109 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.276 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.515 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.724 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.44 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 372, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'seemed'.
Suggestion: seemed
...ssumption is that the government is not seem to propose a concrete plan for sewage a...
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Line 4, column 317, 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.
... river simultaneously to achieve goals. In case third argument proves unwarranted,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, third, thus, well, after all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 45.0 19.6327345309 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 16.3942115768 183% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2855.0 2260.96107784 126% => OK
No of words: 559.0 441.139720559 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10733452594 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86242540663 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80900148483 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404293381038 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 885.6 705.55239521 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.9284181481 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.964285714 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9642857143 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.82142857143 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23458111873 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769192034529 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0757218702142 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164950010101 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0679568459638 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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