Ways to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
Both the passage and the lecture discusses about the cane toads in Australia.
While the passage says that the can destroy toads the lecture disagrees.
First, the passage claims that to prevent the spread of toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized.
However, the lecture insist that this approach won't be easy to work out and is unwanted. It will be unsuccessful as the new toads and toad eggs flow through the rivers and streams. And even if two or three toads or eggs comes through the fence from a river or stream, they will reproduce and increase their population anyway.
Next, the passage asserts that the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. The cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Also young toads and eggs are even easier to gather and destroy.
In contrast, the lecture argues that it might not help. It could be successful but the untrained volunteers will not understand and to it well. As there is a frog species which is in danger and the volunteers might hurt them.
Finally, the passage states that the researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations.
On the other hand, the lecture points out that its a bad idea to use virus because we won't know the consequences of it. As it might affect the native cane toads in Central and South America as the animals are transferred for research or if they migrate then they might affect the whole ecosystem which doen't sound good.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 79, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...sses about the cane toads in Australia. While the passage says that the can destroy t...
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Line 6, column 174, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...traps and can even be captured by hand. Also young toads and eggs are even easier to...
^^^^
Line 9, column 48, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...other hand, the lecture points out that its a bad idea to use virus because we wont...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, finally, first, however, if, so, then, well, while, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 19.0 7.30242825607 260% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => 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: 1351.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70731707317 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41925286428 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522648083624 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.06868261 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.4375 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.3125 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.09492273731 195% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.231872047095 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0801240570318 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727133066486 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120307588754 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0783937738366 0.0443174109184 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.74 12.2367328918 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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