In the lecture, the professor discusses why the three reasons mentioned in the passage on the diminishing bird populations in the USA are not plausible.
To begin with, the reading claims that the expanding cities will destroy more birds' habitats, leading to the decline of bird populations. However, the speaker refutes this and argues that although urban areas are not habitable for some species, it also creates larger and better niche for other types of bird, like sparrows. Hence, it is not reasonable to think that cities cause the drop of birds as a whole.
Next, contrary to the second theory in the reading passage that larger scales of agricultural activities will threaten bird populations by deprive them of their living environment, the lecturer points out that the area of agricultural land in the USA is in fact decreasing annually, as new crops with higher yields are being grown.
Finally, the instructor rules out the possibility of poisonous pesticides. With the awareness of the adverse effects of pesticides among the public, the speaker says, novel, less harmful chemicals are being deployed now. In addition, more plants grown are resistance to pests, so the overall demand for pesticides will be smaller as well. This opposes the idea in the reading material that pesticides are going to continually contribute to the decrease of bird populations.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 331, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...l demand for pesticides will be smaller as well. This opposes the idea in the read...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, second, so, well, in addition, in fact, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1158.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19282511211 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72563859548 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.600896860987 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 357.3 419.366225166 85% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.2748115777 49.2860985944 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.666666667 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7777777778 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.88888888889 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.378798856529 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136056584069 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0745218103913 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198991016281 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063068217372 0.0443174109184 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.3589403974 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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