TPO 53- Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of social benefits.
The reading and the listening are both about taking new taxes on cigarettes and junky foods. Whereas the penman of the reading states that it is a beneficial program for all members of the society, the orator suggests that practically this plan have important issues. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the reading by providing 3 theories.
First of all, the writer claims that increase in tax causes to a raise in costs for smokers and they will become hopeless to buy more cigaretts. The speaker views this issue from an opposite angle, she says that this method does not necessarily leads us to lesser usage of smokes. Consequently, she adds that smokers start to smoke cheaper products as well as unhealthy food costumers buy more unhealthy foods.
The second point offered by the author is that about the time when a person gets sick. Furthermore, unhealthy diet and smoking contribute people to get illness and the taxes can help them at that time. Conversely, the lecturer believes that this taxes are not financially fair to different classes of the people. she mentions that the higher earners and the people with low income most pay the same taxes above harmful products which results in problems for low earners to manage thier money.
Finally, the reading passage states that the government can use the income of the taxes due to giving a better services to citizens. On the other hand, the professor thinks that it is a great amount of revenue for the government but concludes to an addiction for it! Moreover, she argues that when government benefits hugely from the smokers may allow them to smoke everywhere and encourage them buy smoke and other types of unhealthy productions.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 246, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'lead'
Suggestion: lead
...s that this method does not necessarily leads us to lesser usage of smokes. Consequen...
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Line 5, column 314, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...air to different classes of the people. she mentions that the higher earners and th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, second, so, well, whereas, as well as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1426.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88356164384 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46806160992 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578767123288 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 433.8 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => 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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6202682725 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.833333333 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3333333333 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4166666667 7.06452816374 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.219957302783 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0751575755651 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0571912471015 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123076448128 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0206068767919 0.0443174109184 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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