The reading and the passage discuss the decline of cedar trees.The reading provides three possible reasons for that phenomenon, however, the lecture refutes them all.
First of all, the article states that insects, especially the cedar bark beetles, feed on the trees and destroy them. The professor, on the other hand, rejects this claim. He explains that the healthy trees produce very powerful chemicals that kill those insects trying to attack them. The beetles affect only the sick or weak tress, which are already going to die. Hence, the beetles do not cause serious harm to the healthy trees.
Second, the passage contends that the aggressive feeding habits of the brown bears are devastate the cedar trees. In contrast, the speaker rebuts this supposition by elaborating that the tree exists along the coast of United States, and in some islands as well. The islands do not contain any bears, but the trees keep declining. Therefore, it is conspicuous that bears is not the reason for the decrease of the tress.
Third, the reading posits that the climate change in the recent years may be the culprit. Conversely, the professor points out that the decline of that plant species happens not only at the high elevation, but also at the low elevations, where the temperature is not so cold. Thus, it is unlikely that the cold or the climate change ruin the cedar trees' roots in low areas. Thus, the climate factor is eliminated.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 64, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...sage discuss the decline of cedar trees.The reading provides three possible reasons...
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Line 5, column 88, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'devastated'.
Suggestion: devastated
...e feeding habits of the brown bears are devastate the cedar trees. In contrast, the speak...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, hence, however, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, well, in contrast, first of all, 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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => 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: 1202.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94650205761 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34514469404 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592592592593 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 351.9 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.7792088882 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.8571428571 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3571428571 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.78571428571 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307741771733 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0892845540413 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553600983867 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15668546103 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435860689753 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.