When old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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When old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings.

The prompt recommends to demolish historic buildings in favor of constructing infrastructure to meet contemporary needs. Undoubtedly, it is not justified to raze heritage to accommodate modern needs be it for building housing, commercial spaces or public infrastructure like bus stations or transit points. Removal of historic buildings is not only a loss of heritage but also an irrevocable loss of the culture and identity of the society where these buildings are. Moreover, such undertakings are often met with public protests and demonstrations , which ultimately cause delays in projects, rise in costs, and may even lead to cancellation of the projects by the government who face the increasing public pressure.

To begin with, when a historic building is demolished for construction projects, without a doubt, herritage and identity of the culture to which the historic building is associated to is lost. If these words dont mean something to you try conjuring images of Paris without the Eiffel tower but with a new mall in its place, would it be the same paris you visitied, or would this new Paris be completely unrecognisable to you. If Paris doesn't suffice lets take up Rome, would Rome be the same with a new parking lot in place of the Colessum. Would you still visit the places if these buildings were replaced, the answer unsuprisingly a "NO". Ofcourse you can build one to one scaled imitations of these historic buildings at other places but they will be that "imitations".

Moreover, whenever such projects are announced they receive widespread criticism from the public. The construction crews and sites are surrounded by protesting people that make it either impossible or at least very difficult to work for the construction crews. This makes many contractors reluctant to take part in such projects. However, even those contractors and construction firms that do take up such projects because of demonstrations often their projects get delayed as it becomes hard to work at such sites and cost of the project also rises with the delays. Ultimately, the governments are also forced under public pressure to abandon such projects. Recently, Houston city council had to abandon its much touted multistory car park that was supposed to be built on an 18th century Cathedral. Not only this fiasco costed city council its reputation but also millions of dollars. The council had to pay to contarctors that sued them as the council had violated an initial contract by abandoning the project midway.

Defendants of the cause who support building new buildings in place of historic buildings support their argument by claiming that such constructions free up spaces in already congested areas and provide much needed infrastructure to relive stress from already stressed local infrastructure. However, this is argument is only a construct of their half-baked knowledge about urban planning. In fact to relive stress from a congested city center most planners recommend building new city centers and connecting the city to them with rapid urban transit. The same has been implemented in Manhattan ,New York, a new financial district is being construct away from the city near the suburbs and will be connected to Manhattan via dedicated metro Line.

To conclude, we can say that historic buildings are an integral part of cultural identity and herritage which cannot be replaced with any other construction on grounds of practicality.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 12, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'recommends demolishing'.
Suggestion: recommends demolishing
The prompt recommends to demolish historic buildings in favor of construc...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... with public protests and demonstrations , which ultimately cause delays in projec...
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Line 4, column 209, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...s associated to is lost. If these words dont mean something to you try conjuring ima...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...pletely unrecognisable to you. If Paris doesnt suffice lets take up Rome, would Rome b...
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Line 4, column 634, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...were replaced, the answer unsuprisingly a 'NO'. Ofcourse you can build ...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...e same has been implemented in Manhattan ,New York, a new financial district is be...
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Line 10, column 186, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...onstruction on grounds of practicality.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, at least, in fact, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2928.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 555.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27567567568 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0577570817 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506306306306 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 898.2 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8294728826 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.090909091 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2272727273 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.72727272727 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187688087838 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0548640447665 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570959641142 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112407756209 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0521603413608 0.0667264976115 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, at least, in fact, to begin with

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