On a recent New Year's Day, residents of a North American town awoke to discover that thousands of birds had died the night before and that their bodies were lying in open spaces and in the roads. The dead birds had apparently fallen out of the sky during the night. Some people suggested that fireworks in celebration of the New Year were responsible for the birds' deaths. According to this theory, the loud sounds of the fireworks had awakened the birds; the startled birds began flying in the dark, striking buildings, power lines, and trees. The fireworks theory was supported by several observations.
First, the timing of the birds’ deaths seemed to be connected to the fireworks. The fireworks were set off just before midnight, and some people reported seeing birds falling from the sky right at midnight.
Second, examination of the birds’ bodies indicated a possible cause of the deaths. The examination did not find any evidence that the birds had been poisoned or that they had suffered from a disease. Instead, all the birds appeared to have died from injuries caused by impact, indicating the birds hit something at great speed. Such injuries would have occurred, if, as proposed, the startled birds had flown into buildings, power lines, or trees.
Finally, most of the dead birds were the same species, red-winged blackbirds. These birds have poor night vision and generally avoid flying at night. Red-winged blackbirds would be particularly vulnerable to striking unseen objects in the dark. And since any night flying by redwinged blackbirds is extremely rare, only an unusual event, like the fireworks, would cause so many of these birds to take to the air at the same time.
The passage blames fireworks for the death of birds by putting forward several reasons, however, the speaker calls all of them into question by presenting rational counterarguments.
First and foremost, The article asserts that there is a strong time connection between the birds' deaths and the setting off of fireworks. On the other hand, the professor points out that the same night in another location out of the city the birds' deaths were also reported. Therefore, there is no connection between the birds' deaths in or out of the city and fireworks.
Secondly, the writer contends that the observed injuries of birds' bodies are in favor of the possibility that they have hit buildings or trees. The speaker, conversely, clears out that those injuries could have been caused by hitting the ground after falling off from the sky. As a result, under no circumstances is there a connection.
Last but not least, The author claims that most of the dead birds are red-winged blackbirds that have poor vision at night and barely fly during dark times, so the only reason to take the risk of flying at night is because of fireworks. On the contrary, the lecture explicitly states that the high rate number of Red-winged blackbirds' deaths is due to the fact they have a larger population in the area so as to it is normal that more Red-winged blackbirds are dead.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 403, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ey have a larger population in the area so as to it is normal that more Red-winged black...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, as a result, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1129.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 233.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84549356223 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90696013833 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64528829209 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56652360515 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 334.8 419.366225166 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5934469002 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.444444444 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8888888889 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.0 7.06452816374 198% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148717523852 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061466849948 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416226214223 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.079104078502 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345402200691 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 53.8541721854 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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