In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover.
In the reading passage, the writer offers three possible solutions on account of the decreasing of frogs’ population. However, the speaker contradicts that all the methods mentioned in the passage are unpractical and points out the demerit one by one.
Firstly, the author suggests that government should implement laws banning farmers from overusing pesticide since the chemicals cause frogs severe breathing problems. On the contrary, the speaker contends that this method is not economic practical. Farmers rely on using pesticide to increase the production of crops and remain competitive on the market.The inhibition of using pesticide will result in the loss of crops and lowering the yield.
Secondly, the author claims that the antifungal medication should be conducted in large scale since the fungus leads to the frog dehydration. On the opposite, the speaker refutes that the wide application of antifungal treatment is also unreliable since it has to be conducted individually. What is more, this antifungal medication cannot be passed on to the offspring, which means it has to be practised generation after generation, costing huge amount of money.
Lastly, the writer proposes that since frogs are dependent on the water habitats for laying eggs, the government should protect water habitats from excessive use. However, the speaker argues that solution cannot save the frogs since the overuse of water habitats is not the biggest threat. The real reason is that global warming causes the disappearance of wetlands, thus many species become extinct. The prohibition of overuse wetlands cannot address with the loss of wetlands caused by global warming.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 355, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...ps and remain competitive on the market.The inhibition of using pesticide will resu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, on the contrary, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 13.8261648746 22% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 43.0788530466 28% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1420.0 1977.66487455 72% => OK
No of words: 259.0 407.700716846 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48262548263 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.48103885553 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76355649938 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 212.727598566 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563706563707 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 618.680645161 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 9.59856630824 10% => OK
Article: 12.0 3.08781362007 389% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.6003584229 58% => 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: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.128318654 48.9658058833 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.333333333 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5833333333 20.6045352989 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.91666666667 5.45110844103 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0844440957629 0.236089414692 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0302613014669 0.076458572812 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031879226076 0.0737576698707 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0451673129468 0.150856017488 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311780841275 0.0645574589148 48% => 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: 15.2 11.7677419355 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 58.1214874552 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 10.9000537634 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
More content wanted.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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