In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States,birds in particular. Unfortunately for birds, these trends are likely to

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In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States,birds in particular. Unfortunately for birds, these trends are likely to continue, with the result that the number of birds in the United States will necessarily decline.

First, as human populations and settlements continue to expand, birds' natural habitats will continue to disappear. Forests, wetlands, and grasslands will give way to ever more homes, malls, and offices. As the traditional areas suitable for birds keep decreasing, so will the size of the bird populations that depend on those vanishing habitats.

Second, agricultural activities must increase to keep pace with the growing human population. The growth of agriculture will also result in the further destruction of bird habitats as more and more wilderness areas are converted to agricultural use. As a result, bird populations in rural areas will continue to decline.

Third, as human settlements expand and agriculture increases, the use of chemical pesticides will also increase. Pesticides are poisons designed to kill agricultural and home garden pests, such as insects, but inevitably, pesticides get into the water and into the food chain for birds where they can harm birds. Birds that eat the poisoned insects or drink contaminated water can die as a result, and even if pesticides do not kill birds outright, they can prevent them from reproducing successfully. So pesticides have significantly contributed to declines in bird population, and because there will continue to be a need to control agricultural pests in the future, this decline will continue.

The reading passage and the lecture both discuss negative advantages of over population in agriculture and lands, missing lots of bird habitat and decline the number of bird species. In the reading passage, author mentions that natural habitat of birds are disappeared because of the tree main reasons; however, in the listening part, the lecturer challenges what the author states and refutes the reasons.

To begin with, as mentioned in the article, the author sets forth that human populations are expanded and it is caused various types of bird lose their habitat and the bird decreases in the size of the population; nevertheless, the professor rebuts the reasons asserting that with urban development a variety of bird species have more foods and actually they have larger habitat. It would be more preys for some birds such as crowd and piggy. Therefore, some population increase and some population decline.

Secondly, the author points out that with accelerating in the agriculture, thanks to the growing population, and attempting to provide foods for residents, more wildness arias have destroyed. nevertheless, the professor flatly contradicts the reasons and contends that they demand less and less land, nowadays, for agriculture. It means that farmers utilize less land. On the other hand, they introduce new crops; as a result of this practice, there is no need to destroy lands.

Finally, the author claims that pesticides have poisoned foods and water, ruined variety of species of birds. In contrast, the professor is of the opinion that governments are aware of demerits of the pesticides. In order to tackle to the issue, firstly, scientists discovered new pesticides that have less disadvantages, and secondly, now they grow crops which are unattractive to pasts and resistant crops before the pasts do not harm birds.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 193, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Nevertheless
...ts, more wildness arias have destroyed. nevertheless, the professor flatly contradicts the r...
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Line 13, column 303, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun disadvantages is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...sts discovered new pesticides that have less disadvantages, and secondly, now they g...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, firstly, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, in contrast, such as, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1562.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31292517007 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76603190181 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557823129252 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => 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: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 91.2641161075 49.2860985944 185% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.166666667 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.5833333333 7.06452816374 192% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.183364894171 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0585333365582 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470042542542 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102355343157 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499139135928 0.0443174109184 113% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.42419426049 115% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.2008830022 170% => 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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