The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.
"The primary function of the Committee for a Better Oak City is to advise the city government on how to make the best use of the city's limited budget. However, at some of our recent meetings we failed to make important decisions because of the foolish objections raised by committee members who are not even residents of Oak City. People who work in Oak City but who live elsewhere cannot fully understand the business and politics of the city. After all, only Oak City residents pay city taxes, and therefore only residents understand how that money could best be used to improve the city. We recommend, then, that the Committee for a Better Oak City vote to restrict its membership to city residents only. We predict that, without the interference of non-residents, the committee will be able to make Oak City a better place in which to live and work."
The city government proposes to let only the residents become the member on the committee that advises government on the usage of budget. While the government provides two reasons why it could be able to make the Oak City better place by allowing only residents become the member of committee, all these reasons are dubious. It is not known how many member on the commitee are non-resident members? and whether their objections were reasonable or foolish? If there were significant number of resident member on the committe and government still failed to convince the committee then removing non-resident member from the committe will not make the Oak City a better place to live.
Secondly, the local government cites that non-resident member work in the city but live somewhere else hence, they do not understand the politics and government of the city. Since non-resident members of the committee work in the city, there is greater chance that they are as aware as any other resident of the city about the politics. They could have learned about the working and politics of the city either directly or from some other sources. It might be that they have friend who happens to be resident member of the society and non member keep themselves abreast of current affairs in the city by discussing with resident member of the society. Since the claims of the local government are apocryphal, removing non-resident member on the committee is unlikely to make the Oak City a better place to live.
Thirdly, the local government cites resident of city paying taxes as evidence of their awareness of politics of the city. However, it is not known whether resident of the city are really aware the politics of the city. In case, it is proven that the residents are not aware about the current affairs of city, the governments recommendation is unlikely ot have the predicted result.
Finally, it is unclear what are the motives of government behind asking people to let the only residents become member of the society. If only residents become the member on the committee, there is high probability that favuratism will be rife in the government and in turn would lead to waxing of the corruption and squandering of the valuable resources. This is antithetical to what the government proposes to do after electing only residents as the member of the society.
The government's recommendation could be corroborated by disclosing the facts and not percieved deficiency of non-resident members, and by revealing whether the large number of resident member were in opposition to the government or not.
In conclusion, since the government motives are unclear, the number of non-resident member already present on the committtee and whether the objection raised by committee were rfooloish or no is unknown, the city government's recommendation will not make the Oak City a better place to live.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: It is not known how many member on the commitee are non-resident members? and whether their objections were reasonable or foolish?
Error: non-resident Suggestion: non resident
Error: commitee Suggestion: committee
Sentence: If there were significant number of resident member on the committe and government still failed to convince the committee then removing non-resident member from the committe will not make the Oak City a better place to live.
Error: non-resident Suggestion: non resident
Error: committe Suggestion: committed
Sentence: The government's recommendation could be corroborated by disclosing the facts and not percieved deficiency of non-resident members, and by revealing whether the large number of resident member were in opposition to the government or not.
Error: non-resident Suggestion: non resident
Error: percieved Suggestion: perceived
Sentence: In conclusion, since the government motives are unclear, the number of non-resident member already present on the committtee and whether the objection raised by committee were rfooloish or no is unknown, the city government's recommendation will not make the Oak City a better place to live.
Error: non-resident Suggestion: non resident
Error: committtee Suggestion: committee
Error: rfooloish Suggestion: foolish
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 478 350
No. of Characters: 2369 1500
No. of Different Words: 172 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.676 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.956 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.79 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.118 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.768 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.471 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.457 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.65 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.214 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 400, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
... the commitee are non-resident members? and whether their objections were reasonabl...
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Line 2, column 122, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t live somewhere else hence, they do not understand the politics and government o...
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Line 2, column 477, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'friended'.
Suggestion: friended
...her sources. It might be that they have friend who happens to be resident member of th...
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Line 2, column 547, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ent member of the society and non member keep themselves abreast of current affai...
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Line 3, column 314, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
... about the current affairs of city, the governments recommendation is unlikely ot have the ...
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Line 3, column 356, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (ot) must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
...vernments recommendation is unlikely ot have the predicted result. Finally, it is u...
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Line 4, column 261, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...avuratism will be rife in the government and in turn would lead to waxing of the ...
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Line 5, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...ents as the member of the society. The governments recommendation could be corroborated by...
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Line 6, column 48, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lusion, since the government motives are unclear, the number of non-resident memb...
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Line 6, column 191, Rule ID: NOW[3]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...n raised by committee were rfooloish or no is unknown, the city governments recomm...
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Line 6, column 215, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...re rfooloish or no is unknown, the city governments recommendation will not make the Oak Ci...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2412.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 478.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0460251046 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82612986809 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.366108786611 0.468620217663 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 782.1 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1738388976 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.0 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5555555556 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.27777777778 5.70786347227 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.572345123947 0.218282227539 262% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.227378405151 0.0743258471296 306% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.170654303337 0.0701772020484 243% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.325483366387 0.128457276422 253% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.163575295213 0.0628817314937 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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