The reading and the lecture are both about the use of ethanol which is a plant based fuel. The author of the reading believes that ethanol is not a sufficient replacement for gasoline. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that it would be a good substitute.
First of all, the author points out that the use of ethanol won’t benefit the environment. It is mentioned that when ethanol is burned it emits carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere like gasoline thus, making it environmentally unfriendly. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the use of ethanol won’t contribute to global warming. Furthermore, he argues that growing plants would increase the conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen as a result, it will counteract any fumes released from the burning process.
Secondly, the author contends that its use will decrease the population of plants which animals are fed on. The article notes that for only ten percent of the USA fuel needs sixty percent of the corn currently cultivated is needed. The lecture rebuts this argument. He suggests that the parts of plants used for the production of ethanol are not eaten by animals therefore, no source of food for animals would be affected.
Finally, the author states that gasoline is more cost efficient. He elaborates on this by mentioning that the only reason that ethanol prices are same with gasoline right now is because of government subsides. On the other hand, the lecturer posits that’s ethanol prices will go down once production is increased. He puts forth the idea that for every three percent increase in production there is a forty percent decrease in price.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 186, 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.
... a sufficient replacement for gasoline. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1418.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99295774648 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67690868561 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531690140845 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2763494537 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.4117647059 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7058823529 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88235294118 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.22727175024 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.068331411292 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455197201715 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140128441143 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0247402271726 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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