First, no fossil remains of actual bees have ever been found that date to 200 millionyears ago. The earliest preserved body of a bee is 100 million years old—only half asold as the fossilized structures discovered inArizona.Absence of Flowering PlantsA

In this set of materials, the reading and the listening are both discussing the structures inside old fossilized trees wherein the reading states that the skeptics doubt that structures were created by bees and provides three arguments of support. However, the professor explains that the arguments presented by the author are weak and refutes each of the author's points.
First, the author of the reading claims that the only fossilized structure has been found 100 million years old not 200 million years old. The professor refutes this point by saying that fossil bees need a kind of resin to preserve. More than that, since there were no trees producing this kind of resin from 200 million years ago, the bees could not be preserved. Therefore, that does not mean that the bees did not exist at that time.
Secondly, the reading says that since the flowers did not exist 200 million years ago, there was doubt about the existence of bees. However, the professor explains that bees in 200 million years ago fed on non-flower trees such as pine or ferns trees.
Finally, the reading states that the bee nests are closed by caps. Nevertheless, the fossilized structures lack this cap. The professor opposes this point by saying that there is some theories support that bees build the chambers without caps. Moreover, they use a water-proofing material as the same kind of material in the fossilized structures.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
the arguments presented by the author are w...
^^^
Line 7, column 172, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are some theories'?
Suggestion: there are some theories
...essor opposes this point by saying that there is some theories support that bees build the chambers wi...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, kind of, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 943.0 1373.03311258 69% => OK
No of words: 193.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88601036269 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38302542357 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 145.348785872 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564766839378 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 264.6 419.366225166 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.8300628223 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.7272727273 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5454545455 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.90909090909 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.322096051566 0.272083759551 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116987296416 0.0996497079465 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0984634327668 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165195292207 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126050438893 0.0443174109184 284% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.26 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 63.6247240618 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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