Both the reading and the listening talked about R. robustus, an ancient dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago. The author of the reading passage contends that the dinosaur was indeed a scavenger, rather than a hunter, and cites three possible reasons. However, in the lecture, the professor challenges the writer’s stance.
First of all, the reading passage asserts that R. robustus was a scavenger, egg eating animal, because it’s size was too small to possibly hunt other dinosaurs. The writer compared it’s size to a cat, which is pretty small. However, in the lecture, the professor calls into question this reason and contends that the dinosaur could actually hunt baby dinosaurs. According to the lecturer, the dinosaur was more than twice the size of baby dinosaurs which is definitely sufficient for the dinosaur to effectively hunt and eat other baby dinosaurs.
Secondly, the writer contends that the legs of R. robustus were too short and were situated not directly below, but to its sides. All this would make the hunting difficult because the dinosaur wouldn’t be able to run fast enough in order to catch its prey, the other dinosaurs. In contrast, the lecturer challenges this reasoning and says that having short legs isn’t that disadvantageous. She cites the example of Tasuman devil, another predator, which has small legs, but can achieve speeds upto 15km/hr and can successfully hunt down its prey.
Finally, the author of the passage asserts that there we no teeth marks on the bones of the dinosaur found inside the stomach of R. robustus, which should have been there if it indeed hunted other dinosaurs. Nevertheless, like the other two reasons, the professor also challenged this reason. The professor says that the author’s of the reading passage overlooks many pertinent, pivotal facts while arriving at this conclusion. According to the lecturer, the R. robustus used to swallow its prey, which justifies the absence of tooth maks.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'its' (possessive pronoun) instead of 'it's' (=it is)?
Suggestion: its
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, while, as to, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1665.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17080745342 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57203049036 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527950310559 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 489.6 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9111858577 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.25 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115972193187 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0375201645409 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.054940788686 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0796712897632 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0292281286273 0.0443174109184 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 10.7273730684 47% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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