The author of the passage and the lecturer in the audio both discuss whether bees existed on the Earth as early as 200 million years ago. The author put forth his three assumptions that signify that bees could not have existed on the Earth 200 million years ago, however, the lecturer contradicts to the assumptions made by the author in the passage.
As per the passage, the author asserts that the existence of the bees was not feasible 200 million years ago because there was no fossil remains of the actual bees found during that period. Second, the author contends that there was also no any evidence of flowering plants, which is the main food for the bees. Consequently, this implies that the bees did not even exist. Third, the author implies that the fossilized structures found in Arizona lacked some of the finer details of bee’s nest.
On the other hand, the lecturer in the audio contradicts the aforementioned assumptions by the author in the passage. As per the lecturer, those assumptions were not convincing enough. Thus, the lecturer believes that the existence of bees might have be feasible 200 million years ago. First, the lecturer asserts that it is the there was no any evidence of fossil remains of actual bees but it is possible that the nest of the bees could not be preserved. Furthermore, the trees that possess sticky liquid that preserves the nest of bees might be rare relative to present time. Second, the lecturer asserts that bees could also survive without feeding on flowering plants. They might also feed on non-flowering plants like fern and pine trees, however, later, the bees adapted to feed on flowering plants.
Finally, the lecturer implies that even though the fossilized structures lacked finer details of bee’s nest, they possessed same chemical evidence of special water proofing material as that of present nest.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ns made by the author in the passage. As per the passage, the author asserts t...
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Suggestion: now
...the author contends that there was also no any evidence of flowering plants, which...
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Suggestion: some
...ized structures found in Arizona lacked some of the finer details of bee's nest. ...
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...the finer details of bee's nest. On the other hand, the lecturer in the a...
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Suggestion: been
...s that the existence of bees might have be feasible 200 million years ago. First, ...
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Suggestion: now
...cturer asserts that it is the there was no any evidence of fossil remains of actua...
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... adapted to feed on flowering plants. Finally, the lecturer implies that even ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, third, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1564.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 314.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98089171975 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48138021241 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.429936305732 0.540411800872 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.1870641842 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.714285714 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4285714286 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.309637175497 0.272083759551 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123144182994 0.0996497079465 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106150354595 0.0662205650399 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205369314461 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0777797754615 0.0443174109184 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.