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

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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 passage and the lecturer are discussing the efficiency of cloud seeding reducing hail in farmers’ crops.

First, the passage indicates that cloud seeding is an effective method to alleviate hail in agricultural areas because it turns hail into snow thanks to a chemical product. Thus, rain and snow coming from this hail create less damages on lands. However, the lecturer qualifies this theory highlighting the fact that this process is effective under laboratory conditions which does not match with real meteorological conditions causing drought due to a lack of water.

Moreover, the passage suggests that previous tests implementing cloud seeding were made in Asia to regulate rain in urban areas. These experiences led to an effective result. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this argument explaining the experience took place in urban area where air pollution is high and favorable to cloud seeding. Yet, these climatic conditions are not the same in United States which could decrease the effectiveness of cloud seeding in unpolluted areas.

Finally, the passage provides a successful example of hail monitoring thanks to cloud seeding reducing damages. Nonetheless, the lecturer challenges the passage saying the reduction of hail was also noticed in neighboring areas. Therefore, the decrease of hail is more likely due to natural climatic variations than cloud seeding effect.

As a conclusion, the lecturer shows three different reasons why the efficiency of cloud seeding can be discussed.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 223, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun damages is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...n and snow coming from this hail create less damages on lands. However, the lecturer...
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Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ncy of cloud seeding can be discussed.
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, therefore, thus

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1298.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.59482758621 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88424881051 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581896551724 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 396.0 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => 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: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7946597455 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.166666667 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.58333333333 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156937372307 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0655868706841 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0435216930254 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0934239494586 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340488081115 0.0443174109184 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.2367328918 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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