Both the passage and the lecture discuss the salinity in California's Salton Sea, which is an inland lake that is suffering from exponential salinization, putting in risk the flora and fauna of the lake. The passage proposes different methods to solve the salinity problem, all which include technical procedures. However, the lecturer thinks these are neither realistic nor practical and proceeds to cast doubt upon them.
First, the reading proposes building a water treatment facility. The article establishes that by pumping out the lake's water to evaporate will desalinate the water, which we could then return into the water body. Nevertheless, the lecturer challenges this idea, She points out that the facility's waste product would be a threat to human health. She explains that the solid waste aside from salt would also contain large amounts of selenium, which is toxic and could be carried away by the wind into a local community.
Second, The text suggests that pouring ocean water into the lake is a viable solution. The author says that because the Ocean's water is 20% less salty than the lake's, making a pipeline between the two would dilute the aforementioned water. Meanwhile, the speaker rebuts this argument by explaining that such a structure would be too expensive. She mentions that the local government simply would not have enough resources to build a canal or pipeline.
Finally, the passage proposes building walls that separate the lake into sections, so the biggest sections are diluted by the streams of rivers. the professor says that earthquakes would make the structure suffer.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 146, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1362.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23846153846 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56894286733 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 417.6 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7429703492 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.769230769 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92307692308 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171979265929 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0556729940134 0.0996497079465 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490365499344 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0939364447288 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333903561299 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.