The argument claims that the pet food delivered by the pet food company to its customers had caused the pets who had consumed the company's pet food to experience various signs of illness including vomiting, lethargy and many others. It seems extremely rash to predict that the illness caused to the pets has any direct relation to the pet food consumed.
The author claims that it is because of the complains received regarding the illness the pet food company decided to recall 4 million pounds of pet food. But it seems highly irrational that the such a huge amount of pet food was recalled by the company because of the fact that the argument fails to inform us about the numerical value of the complains received as it could be as less as 5 complains that were received or was it actually a large number complains from the clients?
Next the argument informs us that the pet food company tested some of the samples from the pet food recalled and the chemicals found were all approved by the pet food company. Again the claim stated inadmissible because the author failed to provide us with the number of samples that were tested, Was it 2 or was it 50?. Also, even if the chemicals involved were all safe and sound Were the conditions in which the pet food was kept hygienic? As Hygiene can play a huge role in the food industry.
It is concluded in the argument that the recalled food had no relation with the symptoms involved and the pet food company should extract all its resources from this case. But the argument lacks to tell us the basis of the conclusion.
Hence, It can be concluded that the argument lacks evidence and it is stated to be unwarranted and the pet food company should scrutinise further into the situation and reach to a warranted conclusion.
Essay evaluation report
samples:
https://www.testbig.com/gmatgre-argument-task-essays/pet-food-company-r…
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 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: 317 350
No. of Characters: 1437 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.22 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.533 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.384 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.818 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.065 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.476 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.714 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.248 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 254, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_THE_FACT_THAT[1]
Message: This phrase is redundant. Use simply 'because'.
Suggestion: because
...of pet food was recalled by the company because of the fact that the argument fails to inform us about t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 386, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...mplains received as it could be as less as 5 complains that were received or was i...
^^
Line 5, column 63, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...rms us that the pet food company tested some of the samples from the pet food recalled and ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 444, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...n which the pet food was kept hygienic? As Hygiene can play a huge role in the foo...
^^
Line 9, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...at the argument lacks evidence and it is stated to be unwarranted and the pet foo...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1468.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 317.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.6309148265 5.12650576532 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42437590797 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.429022082019 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 448.2 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.4407052668 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.454545455 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8181818182 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.09090909091 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.559245074865 0.218282227539 256% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.253598010612 0.0743258471296 341% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.188695296718 0.0701772020484 269% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.337917289316 0.128457276422 263% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112678218394 0.0628817314937 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 48.3550499002 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 12.197005988 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.17 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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