The reading passage and the lecture both discuss the advantages and disadvantages of implementing taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food products. The author claims that adding taxes discourages people from smoking. However, the lecturer casts doubt on these claims and asserts that adding taxes would not forbid people from smoking.
First, the author suggests that adding taxes would discourage people from smoking because of the high price.. In contrast, the speaker argues that people will not be discouraged to buy the product. Instead they will buy the cheaper unhealthy product. According to the lecturer this cheaper product is even more harmful to their health.
Second, according to the reading adding taxes provide money to treat smokers of different diseases. The speaker find this point debatable. He bolsters his opinion by saying that it is true that non smoker should not cover the cost of treating smokers. However, it is also unfair to charge the same amount of money for a pack of cigarettes to a rich and a poor person. Therefore, adding taxes provide an unfair equation.
Lastly, the lecturer contradicts the fallacy of the passage that adding taxes provide more money for the government to spend on public welfare. He contends by saying that government should not depend on this income as a continuous source, since they would adopt softer policies against smoking in public places. Furthermore, any decrease in demand means less revenues. As a result, the government would suffer of deficits due to the reduced income
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: .
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Suggestion: Instead,
... not be discouraged to buy the product. Instead they will buy the cheaper unhealthy pr...
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Suggestion:
...y the product. Instead they will buy the cheaper unhealthy product. According to ...
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Suggestion: finds
...kers of different diseases. The speaker find this point debatable. He bolsters his o...
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Suggestion: fewer
...rthermore, any decrease in demand means less revenues. As a result, the government w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, second, so, therefore, in contrast, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1301.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22489959839 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53349045666 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534136546185 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 385.2 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.3545367698 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.3125 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5625 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.625 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219762746792 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686379796711 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0505123595068 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12817230222 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447768498284 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.7 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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