In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
In this argument, the author has stated the problem of the number of acidents those are taking place in the Prunty County even after lowering the speed limits. He feels that, following the similar steps as of Butler County like increasing lane widths, improving visiblity at dangerous turns will help reduce the number of accidents in Prunty County. While doing so, the author is giving such a conclusion without examining or taking into consideration various other factors that might be causing the accidents.
First of all, the author mentions that the Prunty County has lowered the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. Now, there is no evidence mentioned, that all the accidents have taken place on county highways itself. These accidents may be taking place on city streets or small roads connecting different localities of the County. Therefore, a statistics of the number of accidents taking place on which roads of the Prunty County will be very helpful to reach a well-informed decision.
Later, the author advises to undertake the similar road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. While providing this advice, the author misses a very important factor that might be a reason for the increased accidents in the Prunty County : weather. It is possible that the weather of the Prunty County is always cloudy and foggy. May be it rains very frequently there and therefore, despite good road conditions, accidents take place due to bad weather most of the time. Also, the author again suggests to resurface rough highways, and as mentioned earlier, we have no evidence that the accidents taking place are on the highways itself. So, resurfacing the highways might be in vain, if the accidents are taking place on the local roads.
Lastly, the author mentions that the major Butler County roads have speed limit of 55mph and yet reported 25 percent fewer accidents than five years ago. In this statement, the author mentions the term "reported". There is a possibility that the Butler County traffic police levies a hefty fine on the ones involved in the accident, and hence, the public refrains from reporting the accidents. Reported accidents may not be the actual number of accidents taken place in the Butler County.
Therefore, looking at the possibilities mentioned in the above passages and some important factors which are not being taken into consideration, the author should get the answers for them and then based on the data and statistics and actual scenarios, reach a well-informed decision that whether following the similar steps like of Butler County to reduce the number of accidents is going to prove helpful for the Prunty County.
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e-rater score 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: 18 15
No. of Words: 459 350
No. of Characters: 2303 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.629 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.017 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.537 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 180 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.07 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.404 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.404 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.176 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 73, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s that the Prunty County has lowered the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour...
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Line 3, column 27, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'undertaking'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'advise' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: undertaking
...ed decision. Later, the author advises to undertake the similar road improvement project th...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 461, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: Maybe
...unty County is always cloudy and foggy. May be it rains very frequently there and ther...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 625, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggests resurfacing'.
Suggestion: suggests resurfacing
...ost of the time. Also, the author again suggests to resurface rough highways, and as mentioned earlie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, lastly, look, may, so, then, therefore, well, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2371.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 459.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16557734205 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71425819379 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448801742919 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 727.2 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.7641087688 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.722222222 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283510888164 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106186978221 0.0743258471296 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819765377979 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172737394492 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0801550275056 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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