Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a met

The reading states that “ Cloud Seeding” is an effective method to convert hail into snow or harmless rain which would protect the crops from getting destroyed by hails in the US. Thus, the author gives reasons for the support. However, the professor explains that the method of Cloud seeding is neither effective nor clear, and thus, she refutes each of the points mentioned in the article.

First, the author posits that the laboratory experiments support that cloud seeding is effective. Conversely, the professor contends that even though it may be true that the experiment of adding silver iodide to cold water vapour would convert hail to snow, yet, this result suggest that seeding all the clouds will cause other complication like drought. This will cause damage to the crops due to lack of water.

Second, the reading posits by giving the evidence from Asia that the cloud seeding was successfully used to control precipitation in urban areas. It suggest that cloud seeding will also be effective to control hail in the US. The professor rebuts this argument by saying that the research in Asia was conducted in urban areas which is not applicable in US farm lands. She explains that the urban area in city have more pollution due to industries and motor vehicles, which creates favourable conditions for cloud seeding. However, there is no pollution in the rural areas thus, this idea may not work in the unpolluted farm lands in USA.

Finally, the article claims that few local studies on cloud seeding found that the area treated with cloud seeding had reduced hail damage compared to the previous years. Conversely, the professor contends that the claims in the article are not convincing. She points out that although the damage cause by hail was reduced in those areas, there were many other areas in north, east and south of that region which also experienced reduced hail damage. She elaborates that this result was more likely due to the natural variation in the weather and not because of cloud seeding.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 150, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'suggests'?
Suggestion: suggests
...ontrol precipitation in urban areas. It suggest that cloud seeding will also be effecti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, however, may, second, so, thus

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1703.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 341.0 270.72406181 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99413489736 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39577417976 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489736070381 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 504.9 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.645117704 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.533333333 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7333333333 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.159722831534 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0551997958237 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0472805556095 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104927835889 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301694635471 0.0443174109184 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => 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: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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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