The author professes that Agnostids were arthropods and proposes three theories about how they lived based on the fossil records. However, the professor finds the ideas implausible and expresses a profound disagreement by elaborating on the fact that the mentioned theories have serious weaknesses.
First, the author holds the view that Agnostids were free-swimming predators. Conversely, the lecture disaffirms this point and offers a strong counterargument based on the fact that although other arthropods are hunters, they have large eyes enabling them to track preys. On the other hand, fossil records reveal that Agnostids were blind or had poorly developed eyes. In fact, they must have had special sensory to chase the prey, but they did not. Thus, the author's theory will be ruled out.
Second, the passage is in the conviction that Agnostids were seafloor dwellers. On the contrary, the lecturer opposes this assertion and highlights the fact that seafloor animals do not have ability to move fast and to go faraway places, and they stay localized areas. Also, they live in small geologic areas. However, Agnostids lived in multiple habitats and in large distances and so they had the ability to move fast, all of which are unusual for seafloor animals that will question the author's idea.
Third, the reading alleges that Agnostids were parasites living on larger organisms. In contrast, the speaker refutes this claim and brings up the fact that population of a parasite is not large and is limited because the parasite, otherwise, will kill the host organism. The professor explains that the copious amount of Agnostids fossils corroborates the large size of such animals which dismisses the possibility of being parasite.
The author professes that Agnostids were arthropods and proposes three theories about how they lived based on the fossil records. However, the professor finds the ideas implausible and expresses a profound disagreement by elaborating on the fact that the mentioned theories have serious weaknesses.
First, the author holds the view that Agnostids were free-swimming predators. Conversely, the lecture disaffirms this point and offers a strong counterargument based on the fact that although other arthropods are hunters, they have large eyes enabling them to track preys. On the other hand, fossil records reveal that Agnostids were blind or had poorly developed eyes. In fact, they must have had special sensory to chase the prey, but they did not. Thus, the author's theory will be ruled out.
Second, the passage is in the conviction that Agnostids were seafloor dwellers. On the contrary, the lecturer opposes this assertion and highlights the fact that seafloor animals do not have ability to move fast and to go faraway places, and they stay localized areas. Also, they live in small geologic areas. However, Agnostids lived in multiple habitats and in large distances and so they had the ability to move fast, all of which are unusual for seafloor animals that will question the author's idea.
Third, the reading alleges that Agnostids were parasites living on larger organisms. In contrast, the speaker refutes this claim and brings up the fact that population of a parasite is not large and is limited because the parasite, otherwise, will kill the host organism. The professor explains that the copious amount of Agnostids fossils corroborates the large size of such animals which dismisses the possibility of being parasite.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 462, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...e the prey, but they did not. Thus, the authors theory will be ruled out. Second, th...
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Line 6, column 491, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...seafloor animals that will question the authors idea. Third, the reading alleges tha...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, second, so, third, thus, well, in contrast, in fact, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1472.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31407942238 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63741576014 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56678700361 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5211395666 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.142857143 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7857142857 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.474752131303 0.272083759551 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152285001967 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.164372168948 0.0662205650399 248% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.334200677039 0.162205337803 206% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.309898418199 0.0443174109184 699% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.