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The passage explains how pruning can be helpful in making a tree beautiful as well as healthy. However, the lecturer believes that pruning can harm a tree in some ways. He gives an example of a silver maple tree that contrasts the main points in the passage.
According to the passage, the first obvious benefit of pruning is keeping the size of a tree in an acceptable limit. However the lecturer argues that pruning the tree topping leads to side-branching and accelerates the growth of them. Thus, the tree may soon reach the previous size in a relatively haphazard pattern. An irregularly large...
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Sentence: In conclusion, pruning is a very delicate task and can not necessarily benefits the trees; and it may damages the appearance of trees as well as jeopardizing their health.
Description: The fragment not necessarily benefits is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace necessarily with adjective
Description: A modal auxillary is not usually followed by a verb, present tense, 3rd person singular
Suggestion: Refer to may and damages
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 27 out of 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 9
No. of Words: 263 250
No. of Characters: 1259 900
No. of Different Words: 140 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.027 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.787 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.684 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 42 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 23 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.438 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.315 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.812 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.594 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5