The reading and the lecturer are both about the birds in the USA. The author of the reading states that birds in the United States are decreasing and provides three reasons for support. However, the lecturer explains that the decrease in several birds is not convincing and refutes each of the author's points.
First, the reading conveys that because of the increase in human population the bird habitat may be lost. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that urban growth provides larger and better increase in the bird population. Moreover, he also says that the birds like pageants and seagulls are more in urban areas. He mentions that some birds may be declined by human activities but not all the birds.
Second, the text explains that the growth of agriculture will also cause damage to birds. Nevertheless, the professor opposes this point by saying that in the United States the land used for agriculture is very less.
Third, the article posits that as the agriculture increases the use of pesticides will also be increased, which will affect the growth of birds population. However, the professor says that there are two changes made for the pesticides first, new and less toxic pesticides are used, second, unattractive to birds and they do not harm the birds at all.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 290, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... less toxic pesticides are used, second, unattractive to birds and they do not ha...
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Line 7, column 353, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... and they do not harm the birds at all.
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => 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: 1091.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 221.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93665158371 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43925399959 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 145.348785872 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493212669683 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 330.3 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.9885459416 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1818181818 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0909090909 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.36363636364 7.06452816374 118% => 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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.44367378127 0.272083759551 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170590630407 0.0996497079465 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0853984141733 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260102658953 0.162205337803 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0980213286315 0.0443174109184 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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