The reading and the lecturer are both about the decline in the population of yellow cedar trees. Whereas the reading provides 3 reasons that might cause the decline, the lecturer disputes these main points.
First, the passage suggests that insects' infestation cause a decline in the ceder tree population. However, the lecturer disputes this point. He explains that insects do not the fundamental cause of the damage. He explains that the healthy Ceder trees have a high ability to resist the insect more than the other types of trees since it has a chemical substance that kills the insects. Also, He said that the insects attack the already dead trees not the healthy ones.
Second, the passage claims that the brown bears could cause the decline due to its aggressive feeding habits, However, the lecturer casts doubt on this point. He explains that the number of Ceder trees decline with and without the presence of Brown bears. He said that the trees are found all across the North coast of America like in Iland where no brown bears can found but the Ceder trees population still decreases.
Third, The passage claims that the changes in climate might be responsible for the decline. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that there is no correlation between the climate and the decline. He explains that many more trees died at a warmer temperature at the lower elevation than the coldest temperature at a high elevation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 98, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Line 2, column 34, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'insects'' or 'insect's'?
Suggestion: insects'; insect's
...nts. First, the passage suggests that insects infestation cause a decline in the cede...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, still, third, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1193.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90946502058 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34017837468 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506172839506 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 360.9 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0633553216 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7692307692 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6923076923 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07692307692 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.207524810645 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0731149449638 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619871344246 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117361582124 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0330012006106 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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