Birds' population will decrease as a result of growth of human population
This material addresses the question of the continuing decline of the number of birds in the United States. The reading passage suggests that this trend will continue in the future. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this information by stating that the populations of birds will not necessarily reduce.
To begin with, the reading passage highlights that as a result of expansion of human settlements more and more areas which are birds' habitats will disappear. Moreover, this will inevitably decrease the number of birds. Meanwhile, the professor casts doubt on this and argues that not all of the birds' types will decline, but only some of them. Also, she mentions that nowadays we can see a lot of birds in cities, and we can even here complaints about their increasing trend.
Additionally, the article posits that increasing number of the world's population leads to the increase of agricultural activities inasmuch more food is needed. Consequently, more areas suitable for birds' living will be transformed to agricultural lands and this will lead to the decline of birds’ population. However, the professor advocates a different approach and provides the following details. Namely, she mentions that the increasing demand of food is being satisfied nowadays not by expanding agricultural areas, but through planting modified crops that give more food per unit of land.
Finally, the author invites attention to the fact that pesticides which are used in agriculture for protecting crops from pests harm birds directly or indirectly. Their increasing usage will lead to the reduction of the number of birds. This goes counter to the information in the listening passage, according to which, genetically new pestresistant crops do not harm birds since they do not need any additional chemicals to be protected from insects.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 285, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...casts doubt on this and argues that not all of the birds types will decline, but only some...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'worlds'' or 'world's'?
Suggestion: worlds'; world's
...le posits that increasing number of the worlds population leads to the increase of agr...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, however, if, moreover, so, while, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29692832765 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84748836019 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549488054608 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6641092272 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.857142857 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9285714286 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07142857143 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226742713057 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078362047124 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626367688817 0.0662205650399 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134227935859 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522271400872 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => 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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