The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
There is a salty body of water inland far away from Pacific Ocean in the state of California. The water in this sea is being vaporized in a faster rate than its refilled by rainwater, resulting in increase in its salinity. This has raised concerns regarding the well-being of the local fish or birds. The passage proposes three solutions to help restore its salinity, but the professor challenges these measures.
First, the text proposes construction of desalination facilities. These facilities will vaporize water, leaving toxic materials behind. The vaporated water that is less salty can then be accumulated and returned to the sea. The professor says this process will be more harmful to the local people. According to her, when the salt or the toxic material left behind are mixed in the air, people will breath it harming people's health.
Second, pipelines or canals can be constructed to transfer ocean water to the sea. Since sea water contains less salt, it can help in decreasing the sea's salinity. The lecturer opposes this idea by suggesting that this measurement is too costly and not economically viable. The distance to the ocean is 100 km and the local government do not have enough resources to construct these facilities.
Third, walls can be constructed for seperating bodies of water. Fresh water from rainfall can then be allowed to certain bodies, resulting in salinity decrease. According to the professor this proposition is unlikely to be helpful in the long run due to the local geological challenges. This area is known for its geological activities and earthquake happen on regular basis. In case of earthquakes, the contructed walls will collapse and the sea will return to its past state.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 150, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'seas'' or 'sea's'?
Suggestion: seas'; sea's
...ess salt, it can help in decreasing the seas salinity. The lecturer opposes this ide...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, regarding, second, so, then, third, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1446.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09154929577 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76249393547 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570422535211 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 21.6800528449 49.2860985944 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.3333333333 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7777777778 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.11111111111 7.06452816374 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212350015776 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0727449252399 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650217177173 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138945256754 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043513926785 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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