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 patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
The question of whether prunty county should undertake the same kinds of road improvement project that butler county complated five years ago has been complicated. The author of argument suggests doing so, since the butler county experienced 25 percent fewer reported accidents this past year than there were five years ago. Although undertaking similar projects might reduce the accident rate, we need more evidences to fully evaluate this recommendation.
To begin with, the first piece of information that the author should provide is whether improvement project is the major impetus to reducin...
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 547 350
No. of Characters: 2991 1500
No. of Different Words: 270 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.836 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.468 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.801 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 254 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 182 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 116 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 85 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.789 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.507 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.156 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: Whether; The question whether
The question of whether prunty county should undertake the same...
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Line 3, column 153, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...he major impetus to reducing accidents. if improved project indeed reduced the tra...
^^
Line 4, column 93, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...flection of actual accidents in butler? if the data are based on faulty informatio...
^^
Line 6, column 94, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
...ormation with regard to every accident. we canot readily claim that lowering speed...
^^
Line 6, column 205, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...o overall constant amount of accidents. it is likely that the accidents are caused...
^^
Line 6, column 327, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...g, driving after drinking and so forth. if other factors compose large amount of a...
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Line 6, column 752, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...mendation would have predicted outcome. last but not least, we should be offered...
^^^^^
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Last
...tion would have predicted outcome. last but not least, we should be offered evi...
^^^^
Line 8, column 561, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... technically feasible in prunty county. if prunty is experiencing economic recessi...
^^
Line 8, column 854, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... providing more public transportations. To sum up, as it stands, the argumen is ...
^^^^^
Line 10, column 76, 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.
...n is replied on incomplete information. To make us better determine whether the re...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, so, then, for example, in addition, such as, to begin with, to sum up, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3073.0 2260.96107784 136% => OK
No of words: 547.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.61791590494 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8926970389 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 204.123752495 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522851919561 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 959.4 705.55239521 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.7011591859 57.8364921388 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.92 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.88 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182669386804 0.218282227539 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0504269247141 0.0743258471296 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387904936696 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101267483417 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329045947469 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 12.5979740519 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 156.0 98.500998004 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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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.