Both the passage and the lecture discuss the "let it burn" policy, which stated that firemen should let fires extinguish themselves. The passage pointed out three types of damage caused by the policy that people criticized as a result of an immense forest fire in yellow stone. However, the lecturer posits that there is a bright side of this law that is being overlooked.
First, the passage argues that trees and vegetation were heavily affected. it is mentioned that one-third of Yellowstone's park was incinerated, scorching trees and reducing plants to ashes. The lecturer posits that the fire brought benefits for the plant life afterward. She states that the burned trees allowed other species of smaller plants to thrive, thus, generating more diversity in the long run.
Second, the text claims that wildlife suffered as well. The author says that many large animals fled the park and smaller probably died. furthermore, it is mentioned that the food chain was disrupted, making it difficult for the surviving animals to go back. The lecturer challenges this point. She argues that similarly to plants, new opportunities for different animals arose. She notes that because of the new plant life, a perfect ecosystem for small animals was created, which became stronger after the fire.
Finally, the author says that the fire also affected the local economy, because Yellowstone was a tourist attraction, the intense fire made it an unappealing destiny for many people and as a result, there was a less economic activity. The lecturer stands that this fire was an unusual event, a result of various factors and the let it burn policy was not responsible for it. Furthermore, she says that regular fires are not disastrous enough to affect the economy of parks.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 76, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...s and vegetation were heavily affected. it is mentioned that one-third of Yellowst...
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Line 5, column 138, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Furthermore
...led the park and smaller probably died. furthermore, it is mentioned that the food chain wa...
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Line 7, column 388, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...was not responsible for it. Furthermore, she says that regular fires are not disa...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, similarly, so, third, thus, well, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1498.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14776632302 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56604176284 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560137457045 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.0319331142 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.625 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1875 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.389104154958 0.272083759551 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111079352593 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0655197149929 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223372258607 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.029896894801 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.