The lecture challenged the standpoint and arguments expressed in the passage that Pterosaurs were not capable of powered flights.
First, the lecturer disagreed with what is indicated in the passage that ancient reptiles such as Pterosaurs were most likelyare cold-blooded animals and their slow metabolism will not be able to produce enough energy to support powered flights. Recent discovery of fossils, however, showed that Pterosaurs had dense hair-like furs covering their bodies, which is a common feature of warm-blooded animals. If that is the case, Pterosaurs would have a relatively high metabolism to provide enough energy for powered flight.
Second, the passage discussed that the large size of Pterosaurs would prevent them from powered flight, which was again opposed by the lecturer. The lecturer demonstrated suggested that Pterosaurs had uncommonly light body weight comparing to other animals of similar size. She elaborated her point explaining Pterosaurs had hallow and light bones instead of solid bones which made them light enough.
Third, taking off might indeed be a challenge for Pterosaurs, if they took off like birds, said the lecturer. However, unlike birds who use two legs walking and pushing themselves from the ground, Pterosaurs used all four of their limbs. This will allow Pterosaurs to run fast and jump high enough to launch themselves to the air and accomplish powered flight.
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.22633744856 0.261695866417 86% => OK
Verbs: 0.185185185185 0.158904122519 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.115226337449 0.0723426182421 159% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0534979423868 0.0435111971325 123% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0411522633745 0.0277247811725 148% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0905349794239 0.128828473217 70% => OK
Participles: 0.0493827160494 0.0370669169778 133% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.64075127374 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0288065843621 0.0208969081088 138% => OK
Particles: 0.0082304526749 0.00154638098197 532% => OK
Determiners: 0.0781893004115 0.128158765124 61% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0205761316872 0.0158828679856 130% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0288065843621 0.0114777025283 251% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1425.0 1645.83664459 87% => OK
No of words: 221.0 271.125827815 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.4479638009 6.08160592843 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04852973271 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.429864253394 0.374372842146 115% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.348416289593 0.287516216867 121% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.212669683258 0.187439937562 113% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.16742081448 0.113142543107 148% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64075127374 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619909502262 0.539623497131 115% => OK
Word variations: 63.6004092964 53.8517498576 118% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0529801325 77% => OK
Sentence length: 22.1 21.7502111507 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1753950887 49.3711431718 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.5 132.220823453 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1 21.7502111507 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.7 0.878197800319 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 56.9416289593 50.5018328374 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.30882352941 1.90840788429 69% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.608243207923 0.549887131256 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.13304487284 0.142949733639 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0816640721544 0.0787303798458 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.621118203656 0.631733273073 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144804251582 0.139662658121 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.260860686956 0.266732575781 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11263699125 0.103435571967 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.284808153392 0.414875509568 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.031782637232 0.0530846634433 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.385078103633 0.40443939384 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0995668253922 0.0528353158467 188% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.62251655629 28% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.1766004415 94% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 10.2958057395 78% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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: This is not the final score. 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.