On a recent New Year's Day, residents of a North American town awoke to discover that thousands of birds had died the night before and that their bodies were lying in open spaces and in the roads. The dead birds had apparently fallen out of the sky during the night. Some people suggested that fireworks in celebration of the New Year were responsible for the birds' deaths. According to this theory, the loud sounds of the fireworks had awakened the birds; the startled birds began flying in the dark, striking buildings, power lines, and trees. The fireworks theory was supported by several observations.
First, the timing of the birds’ deaths seemed to be connected to the fireworks. The fireworks were set off just before midnight, and some people reported seeing birds falling from the sky right at midnight.
Second, examination of the birds’ bodies indicated a possible cause of the deaths. The examination did not find any evidence that the birds had been poisoned or that they had suffered from a disease. Instead, all the birds appeared to have died from injuries caused by impact, indicating the birds hit something at great speed. Such injuries would have occurred, if, as proposed, the startled birds had flown into buildings, power lines, or trees.
Finally, most of the dead birds were the same species, red-winged blackbirds. These birds have poor night vision and generally avoid flying at night. Red-winged blackbirds would be particularly vulnerable to striking unseen objects in the dark. And since any night flying by redwinged blackbirds is extremely rare, only an unusual event, like the fireworks, would cause so many of these birds to take to the air at the same time.
The passage discusses the massive death of birds on a recent New Year's Day and blames fireworks for the death of birds by putting forward several reasons, however, the speaker calls all of them into question by presenting rational counterarguments.
First and foremost, The article asserts that there is a strong time connection between the birds' deaths and the fireworks because they were set off at midnight exactly when falling off birds were reported. On the other hand, the professor points out that the same night in another location out of the city where the sound was not heard, the death of birds was also reported. Therefore, there is no connection between the birds' deaths in or out of the city and fireworks.
Secondly, the writer contends that the observed injuries on birds' bodies prove the possibility of hitting buildings or trees. The speaker, conversely, clears out that those injuries could have been caused by hitting the ground after falling off from the sky. As a result, under no circumstances is there a connection.
Last but not least, according to the author, the majority of the deceased birds are red-winged blackbirds. These birds have limited night vision and typically do not fly during dark hours, which indicates that they may be taking flight only due to the presence of fireworks. On the contrary, the lecture explicitly states that the high rate number of Red-winged blackbirds' deaths is due to the fact they have a larger population in the area so as to it is normal that more Red-winged blackbirds are dead.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 441, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ey have a larger population in the area so as to it is normal that more Red-winged black...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, however, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, as a result, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1288.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93486590038 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64573189149 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574712643678 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.0931149105 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.8 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.1 7.06452816374 185% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.191033127236 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704688997354 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0397379825041 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107018120965 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0335078189717 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.7273730684 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.