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 man
The author claims that Prunty County should bring down the number of accidents on their highways using the same techniques followed by Butler County. However, this argument is flawed for the following reasons.
First, a direct comparion is made between the two counties without complete details. We do not know how wide is Prunty County currently. If it's already as wide as Butler County, how will making it wider help? Also, the width of highways depends on how heavily it is used. The reason Butler County highways would have been made wider is to accomodate the increasing number of vehicles in the area. We do not have any such information regarding Prunty County, so if the current width is ample for the vehicles to move about then widening the highways would be a sheer waste of resources.
Second, the reason of accidents in Prunty County could be a large number of intersections and speed brakers installed as compared to Butler County. This would require a lower speed and as author says, the drivers are still exceeding the speed limits according to the evidences. This should require a stricter enforcement of traffic rules, instead of diverting the efforts from the real cause. Until the time the speed limits are not implemented completely and the real cause of accidents is known, formulating a conclusion as to where the resources should will be nebulous.
Third, the author fails to mention the current state of the highways in Prunty County. Are they really rough? Are there any accidents that were caused due to poor visibility? Resurfacing the rough patches and improving visibilies should also be done for all the highways, however if these factors do not exist, there's nothing to work upon.
Hence, the author concludes that Prunty County should imitate the efforts of Butler County without assessing all the details needed. This makes his/her argument completely unreliable and full of loopholes. We need to fill in the information gaps before arriving at a decision because otherwise invested funds and resources will bring no benefits
Comments
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: 19 15
No. of Words: 342 350
No. of Characters: 1685 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.3 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.927 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.479 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.719 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.528 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 188, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'make'
Suggestion: make
...eady as wide as Butler County, how will making it wider help? Also, the width of highw...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 59, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... of accidents in Prunty County could be a large number of intersections and speed brakers install...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 312, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
... however if these factors do not exist, theres nothing to work upon. Hence, the aut...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, really, regarding, second, so, still, then, third, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
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: 1731.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 341.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07624633431 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53867835987 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533724340176 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4549345261 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.1052631579 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9473684211 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94736842105 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271864176992 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0783052443639 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0554092875624 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144175303625 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0297487919756 0.0628817314937 47% => 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: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 12.3882235529 48% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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