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 fossils of bees found 200-millions years ago in the forest of Arizona, whereas the skeptics claims of that there were no existence of bees 200-millions years ago. The lecture casts doubts on this 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 posits 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.

Admittedly, according to the skeptics in the passage, there was absence of flowering plants in past, whereas 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 on 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's nest champers of the bees lack the spiral patterns which are present 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 waterproof are same.

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Average: 6.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 93, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the past'?
Suggestion: in the past
..., there was absence of flowering plants in past, whereas bees has a mutual relation wit...
^^^^^^^
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
...s which are present 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...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, may, moreover, whereas, for example, in addition, 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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1435.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18050541516 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61716170264 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487364620939 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 412.2 419.366225166 98% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.7961163665 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.4117647059 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2941176471 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.29411764706 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338756997444 0.272083759551 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108471427518 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120087895969 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219296367131 0.162205337803 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0998748470771 0.0443174109184 225% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => 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: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => 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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