The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers’ crops by eating harmful insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal species that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy, since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
The article is about cane toad in Australia. The author of the reading feels that ecxess cane toad can be control by three main methods. The lecturer challengers the claims made by the author. She thinks that those three methods are able to control the cane toads.
First of all, the author argives that by making a fence they can contol the cane toad speding. The article is mention that this fence method had been used in twentith century to prevent the spread of rabbits and another animal species. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that even the fence is made young cane toad and eggs of cane toad are found in rivers. Furthemore, she say that these rivers will transport cane toad to other parts of the Australia.
Secondly, the author suggests that cane toad can be destroyed by volunteers. The article notes that cane toad can be easilly caught by traps or by hands. The lectrer rebuts this argument. He suggests that untrained volunteers will not able to do that and they might kill frogs insted of cane toad because cane toad also look like frogs.
Finally, the author state that researchers are devoloping a vrius to control cane toad. Moreover, the article says that it will only ham for cane toad. In contrast, the lecurer's position is that that virus will harm original habitats of cane toad in America.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 138, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1119.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76170212766 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2234439577 2.5805825403 86% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514893617021 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 331.2 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.3721985801 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 69.9375 110.228320801 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.6875 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.625 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212494302265 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867016630844 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0624951103377 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153050546369 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0222127110513 0.0443174109184 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 13.3589403974 62% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 53.8541721854 138% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 11.0289183223 58% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.74 12.2367328918 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 10.7273730684 47% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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