A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled foo

The argument claims that a pet food company recalled their product due to many complaints. It further claims that the pet food company did not find anything wrong with their product after testing and should not devote further time and resources to further research. This claim makes many assumptions which, if proven false, would call the conclusion of the argument into question.

The argument claims that a few samples were tested and was found to safe. It fails to specify how many samples were tested. It could be that the company only tested a small set of products manufactured at one place and did not test the pet food manufactured in a different area. It could also be that of the many different products which the company recalled, only a specific product affects the food and this product was in the samples which were tested.

Even if it is true that all the products were sampled and tested and were found to have approved chemicals, it does not mention if the amount of each chemical used were under the threshold of safe use for that chemical. if those chemicals had higher concentrations than approved, this could have been the reason why any pets were falling sick. It could also be the case that a single breed of pet was affected by this food.

If all of the above assumptions hold true we have to also ask the question- who approved the chemicals? if it was a small agency which is not credible, then the whole argument falls apart. This would prompt the pet food company to delve into further research and find out which chemicals are bad.

The argument has left a lot of blanks which need to be filled before we can agree with its conclusion. By only making sure that all its assumptions are true can we agree with the conclusion of the argument.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 280, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... food manufactured in a different area. It could also be that of the many differen...
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Line 3, column 309, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...rent area. It could also be that of the many different products which the company recalled, on...
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Line 5, column 221, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...hreshold of safe use for that chemical. if those chemicals had higher concentratio...
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Line 7, column 4, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...of pet was affected by this food. If all of the above assumptions hold true we have to ...
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Line 7, column 59, Rule ID: ASK_THE_QUESTION[1]
Message: Use simply 'ask' instead.
Suggestion: ask
...e assumptions hold true we have to also ask the question- who approved the chemicals? if it was ...
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Line 7, column 105, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...e question- who approved the chemicals? if it was a small agency which is not cred...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, then, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1465.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 316.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.63607594937 5.12650576532 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37250404354 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46835443038 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0343300417 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6666666667 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0666666667 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.0 5.70786347227 35% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242750930843 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0958106186918 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10382444747 0.0701772020484 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13881548916 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0815164830547 0.0628817314937 130% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.3550499002 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.98 8.32208582834 84% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 98.500998004 47% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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