The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy At the same time manufacturers are now marketing many home applianc

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The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company.

"Several recent surveys indicate that home owners are increasingly eager to conserve energy. At the same time, manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, that are almost twice as energy efficient as those sold a decade ago. Also, new technologies for better home insulation and passive solar heating are readily available to reduce the energy needed for home heating. Therefore, the total demand for electricity in our area will not increase — and may decline slightly. Since our three electric generating plants in operation for the past twenty years have always met our needs, construction of new generating plants will not be necessary."

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

While it seem that demand that total demand for electricity will decline and construction of new generation plant is not reqiuired, but argument has lot of weakness.

it is stated that during past twenty four years company's three electricity generating plants have met electricity requirements of the locality and home manufacturers are making more energy conserving appliances, but people are using more electric appliances these days than earlier. Earlier only some of the homes have electric gadgets and that too very few electric gadget like tv or fridge. With advancement in technology, every house nowaday has number of gadgets like television, fridge, oven, microwave, mobile, laptop, gaming consoles, electric car to name a few that can increse energy required per house.

Furthermore, during past few years there has been significance increase in the number of houses in the locality. As there is no complaints regarding electricity and water in locality, it has attracted a lot of people towards it which has incraesed number of shops, hotels and schools in the locality. Economic conditon of people in society had become better so they can afford basic appliances.

While technoligies for better home insulation and passive solar heating is readily available which can decrease energy requirements but the price of these equipments is very high. Most of the people who live in the society are middle class and can not afford these equipments. Moreover, while energy conserving, these equipments creates a lot of sound which will further decrease its sales. So, advancent of technology has reduced the energy required by a particular appliance but it also has made electric appliances cheaper which is one of the factor in incresed need of electricity.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...red, but argument has lot of weakness. it is stated that during past twenty four ...
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Line 2, column 31, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-four
...eakness. it is stated that during past twenty four years companys three electricity genera...
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Line 2, column 296, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...s these days than earlier. Earlier only some of the homes have electric gadgets and that to...
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Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are no complaints'?
Suggestion: there are no complaints
...he number of houses in the locality. As there is no complaints regarding electricity and water in loca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, moreover, regarding, so, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1486.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 280.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30714285714 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83797139391 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.582142857143 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4646136173 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.090909091 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4545454545 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27272727273 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0875941950675 0.218282227539 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0326680013461 0.0743258471296 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0362958707326 0.0701772020484 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0470936536025 0.128457276422 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037443258741 0.0628817314937 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 280 350
No. of Characters: 1454 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.091 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.193 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.745 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.038 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.392 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.641 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5