Did bees (a type of insect) exist on Earth as early as 200 million years ago? Such a theory is supported by the discovery of very old fossil structures that resemble bee nests. The structures have been found inside 200- million-year-old fossilized trees i

The reading passage and the lecture are both about the considerations of fossils found 200-millions years ago in the forest of Arizona to be of bees, whereas the author of the reading states the claims of skeptics that there was not existing of bees 200-millions years ago. The lecture casts doubts on those thesis by providing three contradictory points.

First of all, the skeptics states that the fossils are not 200-millions years ago as it is one half as old as the fossils of bees. By contrary, the speaker refutes that statement. He posit that fossils may not have remained for such long years as there were not trees available in that period. He further explains that those trees which produce sticky substances for preserving the fossils of bees might be rare. Therefore, the fossils of bees are not as old as 200-millions years ago.

Admittedly, according to the skeptics in the passage, there was absence of flowering plants and bees has a mutual relation with flowering plants. In additions, he says that the flowering plants was evolved 125 millions years ago. In this sense, bees were not existed 200-millions years ago. However, the lecture disputes this statement. He believes that bees might have been feeding with non-flowering plants. For example, non-flowering plants like ferns, pine trees which might have helped bees to stay alive. Hence, he says that flowering plants might have evolved later in earth.

Finally, the skeptic states that the fossils nest champers of the bees lack the spiral patterns which are presents on the contemporary bees champers of bees. Furthermore, the speaker disagree with the arguments. He suggests that the fossils champers have same chemical composition as that of present's champers. Moreover, he states that the chemical used in champers for water proof are same as that of bee's fossils.

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Average: 6.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 303, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this thesis' or 'those theses'?
Suggestion: this thesis; those theses
... years ago. The lecture casts doubts on those thesis by providing three contradictory points...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 184, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'posits'.
Suggestion: posits
... the speaker refutes that statement. He posit that fossils may not have remained for ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 136, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'bees'' or 'bee's'?
Suggestion: bees'; bee's
... which are presents on the contemporary bees champers of bees. Furthermore, the spea...
^^^^
Line 7, column 234, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'fossils'' or 'fossil's'?
Suggestion: fossils'; fossil's
...ith the arguments. He suggests that the fossils champers have same chemical composition...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 371, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: waterproof
... that the chemical used in champers for water proof are same as that of bees fossils.
^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, may, moreover, therefore, whereas, for example, in addition, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1551.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10197368421 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64453840248 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447368421053 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 447.3 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.272582101 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.1666666667 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8888888889 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55555555556 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.375385854029 0.272083759551 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132202320333 0.0996497079465 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.142472795367 0.0662205650399 215% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.241004681651 0.162205337803 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110257460439 0.0443174109184 249% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

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: 12.0 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
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: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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