In the reading passage, the author quotes three reasons to sell Amtrak to private company from many critics, which entirely contradicts the main idea of the lecturer.
First of all, according to the passage, the government loses money on many Amtrak routes due to underuse in many remote and less populated areas. Even if the speaker admits that there are some remote and less populated areas cause underuse problem to Amtrak, she still disagrees that those underused routes should be cut. Because the Amtrak is non-profit program and these people who live in the remote areas have as many rights for government service as others cites do.
Secondly, the reading passage indicates that it is unfair for government to invest the Amtrak instead of airline or other companies. However, the speaker totally reputes this point by saying that government did many investments by various ways to airline, such as provide the money for the airport building, training for officers and weather satellite, which all beneficial for airlines. Besides, the airlines can survive without government's funding.
Lastly, while the critics in the passage suggest that the government should invest highway system because more people own cars and they prefer to use cars than trains, the speaker in the lecture argues that this trend results from out of date train service. If the train is fast and convenient, there should be more people use it. For example, in Japan and Europe, the trains are popular because their high-speed and better service. Therefore, the speaker suggests that the government should invest more money in Amtrak to improve the service.
To sum up, the speaker in the lectures refutes all three reasons given in the passage that to sell Amtrak to private company. Instead, she asks for more money to improve the service of the train.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, for example, such as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1538.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09271523179 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35782981394 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529801324503 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2241375659 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.307692308 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2307692308 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.92307692308 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.272733028552 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0973135892009 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455732953566 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135662794428 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0470385596968 0.0443174109184 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.