Indias Obsession with Cricket
There is no greater leveller than sport. The ongoing FIFA World Cup is the greatest proof of this fact. The World Cup this year started without some of the most reputed names in the soccer world. Stalwarts like Italy and Netherlands did not make the cut. In what seems like a script written by Anurag Kashyap, Germany hasn’t qualified for the second round, Colombia is struggling to go through, and Argentina just about scraped through to the next round.
Amidst such results, it is impossible not to fantasise about India playing the FIFA World Cup too. And to also wonder - how and why did we - a nation of a billion plus people - become obsessed with a quaint sport like cricket? Logic dictates that we should have taken to soccer instead. Soccer requires no infrastructure and can be played by a large number of people at once. Unlike the Olympics, in which developed nations take home most medals, soccer is more democratic. Among the nations that qualified for his year’s world cup, are Senegal, Tunisia and Nigeria
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 145, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...The World Cup this year started without some of the most reputed names in the soccer world....
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Line 3, column 343, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... no infrastructure and can be played by a large number of people at once. Unlike the Olympics, in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 8.3376753507 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 856.0 1615.20841683 53% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 176.0 315.596192385 56% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86363636364 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 4.20363070211 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47294905832 2.80592935109 88% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 176.041082164 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.6875 0.561755894193 122% => OK
syllable_count: 257.4 506.74238477 51% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.3257731693 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.8181818182 106.682146367 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0 20.7667163134 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.81818181818 7.06120827912 26% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 2.0 4.38176352705 46% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.096818409666 0.244688304435 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0293292561053 0.084324248473 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071286886081 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0737700620263 0.151304729494 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0737700620263 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 12.4159519038 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 78.4519038076 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.33 Out of 6
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