Amtrak is an intercity train service currently owned by the United States government There are a number of critics who believe that the government should not own Amtrak and that Amtrak should be sold to a privately owned company These critics put forward

The reading and the lecture are both about the reasoning behind decreasing the sea otter population. More specifically, in regard to the passage, the author presents three theories that supports the environmental pollution or predators are the main causes of that.
The lecturer disputes the claims made in the article, He points out that predation is the most likely causes this decline.

First and foremost, the author of the reading states pollution of many kinds of pollutants like gas and industries garbage can caused this decrease. The article mentions that these materials can decrease these animals resistance and can affect them. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that this claim is weaken because no dead animals on the beaches . Additionally, he points out that otters can not wash up or shore.

Secondly, the author suggests that because there are many animals population decreased like seals, that is related to the otter mammal .In the article it is said that this supported the theory about the pollution. Again, the speaker specifically addresses this point when he states whales decreased because the human hunting. He goes on to say that after disappearing of whales, they started to hunt small mammals like seals and otters.

Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by suggesting that unusual pattern of otter attributed to the pollution hypothesis because this decrease is differ from place to place. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that uneven pattern is best explained by orca theory that pollution theory because orca so large, so the do not have the access to go to shallow or rocky locations.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 211, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...that these materials can decrease these animals resistance and can affect them. This ar...
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Line 4, column 325, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'weakened'.
Suggestion: weakened
... lecturer. He claims that this claim is weaken because no dead animals on the beaches ...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 370, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...n because no dead animals on the beaches . Additionally, he points out that otters...
^^
Line 6, column 59, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...or suggests that because there are many animals population decreased like seals, that i...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 135, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...als, that is related to the otter mammal .In the article it is said that this supp...
^^
Line 6, column 137, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: In
...s, that is related to the otter mammal .In the article it is said that this suppor...
^^
Line 8, column 160, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'differed'.
Suggestion: differed
...ion hypothesis because this decrease is differ from place to place. Not surprisingly, ...
^^^^^^
Line 8, column 362, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...lution theory because orca so large, so the do not have the access to go to shallow or...
^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, in regard to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1425.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16304347826 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63930275142 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557971014493 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4919899332 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.615384615 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.01410323618 0.272083759551 5% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00593077274376 0.0996497079465 6% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0118328562553 0.0662205650399 18% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00699419950732 0.162205337803 4% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00993020003629 0.0443174109184 22% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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