The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city’s electric expenses by switching all the lights in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The switch would be made gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burn

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The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city’s electric expenses by switching all the lights in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The switch would be made gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burn out, and the city council reasons that since LED lights burn brighter and cost no more to purchase, the switch would help Town X save money on electrical costs in the future.

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to help evaluate the efficacy of the city council’s proposal to save money on electrical costs. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the council’s prediction.

The author in the above article concludes that all the incandescent bulbs of the city should be replaced by the LEDs. The switch would be eventually made when the former would burn out. He or she bolsters the idea by providing some general advantages of the LEDs. However, there are many unwarranted reasons which are not taken into account and which question the credibility of the author’s conclusion.

Firstly, who is the major contributor among all the electrical equipments in the city which account for the maximum percentage of electricity bills? The author has assumed that the incandesc...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 449, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... electrical cost of the city. There may a be a possibility that any industries, movi...
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Line 2, column 692, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...und. The lack of evidence makes unclear whether or not the replacement would prove to be a suc...
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Line 5, column 46, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...idea of replacing incandescent bulbs in all of the public buildings of town X with LEDs as...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, as a result, to a great extent

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2613.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 522.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00574712644 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86368737164 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.421455938697 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 820.8 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5247088647 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.772727273 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7272727273 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09090909091 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.315522578246 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103468575742 0.0743258471296 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0698460405774 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185617478268 0.128457276422 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0232114286783 0.0628817314937 37% => 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: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 523 350
No. of Characters: 2546 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.782 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.868 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.743 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.773 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.49 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.522 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5