The lecture and the passage are both about the alleged powered flight of pterosaurus. The lecture provides evidence that it could powered flight. However, the reading passage contrasts this idea by offering several arguments.
First, the lecturer claims that the pterosaurus was a warm-blooded animal due to the fact that it had hair and fur typical for these kind of animals. Therefore, according to her it was able to do powered flight. In addition, it had a quick metabolism and it actually could run faster than it the passage considered. The passage states instead that this type of dinosaur was cold-blooded so it couldn't fly because it takes too much energy.
Second, the lecturer confirms that the pterosaurus was able to fly because it had hollow bones. Even though, its weight was an obstacle, this anatomical feature allowed it to fly. The passage refutes this by noting that its weight couldn't sustain flying but it didn't consider the types of bones this animal had though.
Third, the lecture supports the idea that it used all four legs to push-off the ground and fly. The reading passage casts doubt on this by noting that it didn't have enough powerful muscles in the hind legs as proved by fossils.
In conclusion, the lecture supports that the pterosaurus was able to fly while the reading passage contradicts it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...cture and the passage are both about the alleged powered flight of Pterosaurus. T...
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.... First, the lecturer claims that the Pterosaurus was a warm-blooded animal du...
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...al for these kind of animals. Therefore, according to her it was able to perform...
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...of animals. Therefore, according to her it was able to perform powered flight. I...
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...type of dinosaur was cold-blooded so it couldnt fly because it takes too much energy. ...
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... the Pterosaurus was able to fly because it had hollow bones. Even though, its we...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, second, so, therefore, third, while, in addition, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
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: 1135.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95633187773 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54655176989 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532751091703 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 343.8 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.6420512615 49.2860985944 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.3076923077 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6153846154 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92307692308 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150425158989 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0646518328307 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0407148145139 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0916941828708 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412318660314 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 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.