Bees' Nest
The reading passage is about the topic of whether the nests found inside the fossilized trees were created by bees. The professor’s lecture deals with the same issue. However, he thinks that the arguments in the reading are not convincing. The professor uses three points to support his argument.
First, even though the reading passage suggests that no fossil remains of actual bees have been found that date to 200 million years ago, the professor argues in the lecture that there were no trees producing resin. A lack of resin means that bees could not be preserved which that bees could not be preserved at that time.
Moreover, despite the statement in the reading that flowering plants were absent 200 million years ago, the professor contends that bees existed before flowering plants. In other words, he supports the fact that bees feed on non-flowering plants.
Finally, the professor asserts that there is chemical evidence that supports the theory that bees built the chambers. Whereas the author of the reading claims that the fossilized structures lack some of the finer details of bees’ nests such as the chambers lacking caps.
In conclusion, the professor clearly identifies the weaknesses in the reading passage and convincingly shows that the central argument in the reading, the idea that the nests found inside the fossilized trees were not created by bees, is actually incorrect.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?In the past, young people depended too much on their parents to make decisions for them; today young people are better able to make decisions about their own lives. 70
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- Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?•Interrupt and correct the mistake right away.•Wait until the class or meeting 70
- Company 70
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 195, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ims that the fossilized structures lack some of the finer details of bees' nests such ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, whereas, in conclusion, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1188.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18777292576 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52692448299 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528384279476 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 340.2 419.366225166 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.1037450919 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8181818182 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.09090909091 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27119956726 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0962265538823 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0761502777608 0.0662205650399 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146184556697 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0847957030576 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.