'The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.“Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this time period, most of the

The given statement suggests that there has been a decline in the overall revenues generated by the local TV stations because they have restricted the times for local news and weather news. They feel that the cancellation of advertisement contracts is one of the main indicators of the losses incurred. However, there are certain ambiguous assumptions made by the producers of the news station related to the reasons behind the plummeting of their reviews. There are three main reasons which will indicate that such assumptions hold no water.

Firstly, the biggest assumption made by the news stati...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 235, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: Couldn't
...ing to degradation in the viewer count. Couldnt it also be attributed to the commotion ...
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Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...on in the viewer count. Couldnt it also be attributed to the commotion in the loca...
^^
Line 7, column 141, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: Isn't
...her will bring back the lost customers. Isnt it possible that there can be no substa...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, as to, such as, with respect to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2879.0 2260.96107784 127% => OK
No of words: 565.0 441.139720559 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09557522124 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71742577648 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 204.123752495 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449557522124 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 872.1 705.55239521 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3293367342 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.863636364 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6818181818 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.54545454545 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273260526547 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920161548914 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0620317714966 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169222349215 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0346674018774 0.0628817314937 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 569 350
No. of Characters: 2822 1500
No. of Different Words: 249 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.884 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.96 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.664 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 195 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 166 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 103 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.864 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.053 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.529 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5