In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover.
In the reading passage, the writer offers three possible solutions on account of the decreasing of frogs’ population. However, the speaker contradicts that all the methods mentioned in the passage are unpractical and points out the demerit one by one.
Firstly, the author suggests that government should implement laws banning farmers from overusing pesticide since the chemicals cause frogs severe breathing problems. On the contrary, the speaker contends that this method is not economic practical. Farmers rely on using pesticide to increase the production of crops and remain competitive on the market.The inhibition of using pesticide will result in the loss of crops and lowering the yield.
Secondly, the author claims that the antifungal medication should be conducted in large scale since the fungus leads to the frog dehydration. On the opposite, the speaker refutes that the wide application of antifungal treatment is also unreliable since it has to be conducted individually. What is more, this antifungal medication cannot be passed on to the offspring, which means it has to be practised generation after generation, costing huge amount of money.
Lastly, the writer proposes that since frogs are dependent on the water habitats for laying eggs, the government should protect water habitats from excessive use. However, the speaker argues that solution cannot save the frogs since the overuse of water habitats is not the biggest threat. The real reason is that global warming causes the disappearance of wetlands, thus many species become extinct. The prohibition of overuse wetlands cannot address with the loss of wetlands caused by global warming.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 355, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...ps and remain competitive on the market.The inhibition of using pesticide will resu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, on the contrary, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1420.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48262548263 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76355649938 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563706563707 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.128318654 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.333333333 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5833333333 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.91666666667 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0844440957629 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0302613014669 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031879226076 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0451673129468 0.162205337803 28% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311780841275 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.8541721854 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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