"In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patr

The author is mainly concerned with speed limit and accidents occurring on highways. He assumed that speed limit is a primary reason for the occurrence of accidents. The assumption proved wrong and further he is also assuming that road surface and other factors are causing them. There can be many factors which cause accidents and those are not stated here.

Lowering a speed limit could cause to decrease accidents. As stated in the passage that many drivers exceed the speed limit, Prunty country should have strict laws regarding speed limits. That will decrease the number of losses. Lane width might be the reason for accidents. That should be reviewed and corrected to lower accident rate. Further, we should assume that bad quality of highway roads are the reason. It depends on how accidents are occurring. Is it a bad quality roads only or irresponsible driving? Another point stated in the passage is genuine to consider that visibility should be increased. That will cause to decrease the number of accidents occurring at night.

In the last sentence, it is stated that major Butler country has regular speed limit though it had reported 25% fewer accidents than 5 years before. The author is comparing one country with one year report and another with 5 years difference. So, It is irrelevant to compare both. Further, the reason for lowering rate of accidents is not mentioned. In sum, they should consider other aspects based on reports of accidents and should apply accident prevention strategies according to that report only.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 36, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'decreasing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'cause' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: decreasing
.... Lowering a speed limit could cause to decrease accidents. As stated in the passage tha...
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Line 3, column 477, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'road'?
Suggestion: road
...ents are occurring. Is it a bad quality roads only or irresponsible driving? Another ...
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Line 3, column 626, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'decreasing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'cause' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: decreasing
...ty should be increased. That will cause to decrease the number of accidents occurring at ni...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, regarding, so

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1295.0 2260.96107784 57% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 255.0 441.139720559 58% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07843137255 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49189690256 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 204.123752495 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529411764706 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 395.1 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 22.8473053892 57% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.5626094555 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 68.1578947368 119.503703932 57% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 13.4210526316 23.324526521 58% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 1.47368421053 5.70786347227 26% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173381713754 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054205245371 0.0743258471296 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0413049290659 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119645264027 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302921515392 0.0628817314937 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 14.3799401198 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 48.3550499002 138% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 12.197005988 59% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 11.59 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 12.3882235529 40% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 11.1389221557 65% => 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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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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flaws:
the arguments are not right on the point.

Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 255 350
No. of Characters: 1261 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.996 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.945 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.42 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 100 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 42 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 13.421 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.393 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.158 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.439 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5