The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend."Of the two leading real estate firms in our town—Adams Realty and Fitch Realty—Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Adams realty and fitch realty are mentioned as the leading real estate firms in the town. There was made a contrast between both the firms. Author also have drawn a conclusion that adams are more likely to sell homes quickly when compared to fitch. But there are so many unanswered questions which made the argument obscure.
Adams has a total of 40 real estate agents where are fitch has only 25, of them many work only part time. So this makes the argument unclear, that is as there are only few agents maybe fitch may have been accepting the customers according to the availability of the agents. So maybe the revenue is low for fitch when compared to adams but there is always a chance that he have been seeling more houses which are of less cost.
Moreover, it was mentioned that the revenue of adams was twice when compared to fitch in the last year. As already mentioned this revenue cant actually decide that who can sell the house faster. If fitch had sold more houses but at a very low cost still the revenue of fitch is low but he will be the fastest seller. So, this made to be clear that who is selling more houses.
Author of the argument finally comes to a conclusion with giving a personal experience. He tells that he tried to sell a house ten years back and it took 4 months for fitch to sell it, where as last year he sold another house which took only 1 month for adams. This statement makes the argument more ambiguious by comparing the efficiency of fitch before 10 years with efficiency of adams of last year. Maybe fitch realty may also have improved in efficiency and may be they might have taken only 10 days to sell the house in the second time. So, this contrast should be made with the present efficiencies of the both the firms rather that taking things from there history.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 332 350
No. of Characters: 1447 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.269 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.358 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.124 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 76 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 49 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 32 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.462 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Adams realty and fitch realty are mentio...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ions which made the argument obscure. Adams has a total of 40 real estate agen...
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Line 5, column 137, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...tch has only 25, of them many work only part time. So this makes the argument unclear, th...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g more houses which are of less cost. Moreover, it was mentioned that the reve...
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Line 7, column 142, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
...hen compared to fitch in the last year. As already mentioned this revenue cant ac...
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Line 7, column 144, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n compared to fitch in the last year. As already mentioned this revenue cant actu...
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Line 7, column 177, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ear. As already mentioned this revenue cant actually decide that who can sell the h...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lear that who is selling more houses. Author of the argument finally comes to ...
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Line 9, column 225, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
... it took 4 months for fitch to sell it, where as last year he sold another house which t...
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Line 9, column 503, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: maybe
...ay also have improved in efficiency and may be they might have taken only 10 days to s...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, if, may, moreover, second, so, still
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1484.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 332.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.46987951807 5.12650576532 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15870154935 2.78398813304 78% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448795180723 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4557382521 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.75 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.125 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251426908438 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100872673386 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144837276615 0.0701772020484 206% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187835732984 0.128457276422 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111436730394 0.0628817314937 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 14.3799401198 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 48.3550499002 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.65 12.5979740519 69% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.77 8.32208582834 81% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 98.500998004 46% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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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.