n the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States—birds in particular. Unfortunately for birds, these trends are likely to continue, with the result that the number of birds in the United States will necessarily decline.
First, as human populations and settlements continue to expand, birds’ natural habitats will continue to disappear. Forests, wetlands, and grasslands will give way to ever more homes, malls, and offices. As the traditional areas suitable for birds keep decreasing, so will the size of the bird populations that depend on those vanishing habitats.
Second, agricultural activities must increase to keep pace with the growing human population. The growth of agriculture will also result in the further destruction of bird habitats as more and more wilderness areas are converted to agricultural use. As a result, bird populations in rural areas will continue to decline.
Third, as human settlements expand and agriculture increases, the use of chemical pesticides will also increase. Pesticides are poisons designed to kill agricultural and home garden pests, such as insects, but inevitably, pesticides get into the water and into the food chain for birds where they can harm birds. Birds that eat the poisoned insects or drink contaminated water can die as a result, and even if pesticides do not kill birds outright, they can prevent them from reproducing successfully. So pesticides have significantly contributed to declines in bird population, and because there will continue to be a need to control agricultural pests in the future, this decline will continue.
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The passage and the lecture both are about birds population in the United States. The author in the passage tends to believe that there is decreasing in the population of the birds in the US because of human activity, particularly houses construction and advancing agriculture. However, the lecturer was the opposite of this idea. She believes that none of these ideas are true.
To begin with, the author suggests that the human population and people who want houses are increasing and it leads to more malls, houses, and offices but the argument challenged by the lecturer. She says that Although birds populations are decreasing in the city, in other arias their population grows. She continues the number of some birds like seagulls are decreased but some birds populations are increased.
To continue, the writer contends that the agriculture speed gets faster because of the human population increasing and more and more habitats and wilderness will become a farm and birds lose their natural habitats. The lecturer, however, is inclined to believe that nowadays farmers do not need more land to destruct and make them farms because they try to make their lands more productive.
Finally, it is stated in the article that due to settlements expansion the use of Pesticides is increased and it leads to kill or hurt birds but the lecturer, on the other hand, believes that these days people are aware of the Pesticides and poisons affect nature and new Pesticides do not contaminate and they use less than the past. Also, new Pesticides do not harm birds.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, so, to begin with, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 7.30242825607 246% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1311.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02298850575 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6346895891 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.513409961686 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 416.7 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 86.6395592275 49.2860985944 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.181818182 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7272727273 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90909090909 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268899613908 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0990867735586 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629647750747 0.0662205650399 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153770918613 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0477929379784 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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