The main topic of both the passage and the lecture is Amtrak train service. According to the passage, Amtrak should be privatized. However, the lecturer refutes the passage's opinion citing three reasons which will be illustrated in the following paragraphs.
First of all, the passage claims that government loses money because maintainance of routs, that are not used very much and are located in distant areas, is costly. Whereas, the lecturer points out that the main application of these routs is not to gain profit, but to fulfil people's demand. People living in far areas have the right to access public transportation, and if Amtrak is privatized, they can not exercise their right.
Secondly, the passage states that since the goverment does not allocate money to other transportation systems like airlines, it is not fair to spend money for Amtrak as well. However, the lecturer supports a contradictary view and declares that government does allocate budget to airlines. Control towers, training staff, and sattelites are only some examples of fields that are financially supported by goverment. Thus, the passage's statement is not valid.
Finally, the passage mentions that it is better to use the funding for improving other transportation fascilities such as highways, because rail traveling is not very popular in the United States. In contrast, the lecturer believes that people do not use train servis very much because it is not fast and efficient. If train system improves, people would use them instead of their car, as the case in the Japan and Europe. Therefore, government should fund train systems to be improved.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'passages'' or 'passage's'?
Suggestion: passages'; passage's
...ized. However, the lecturer refutes the passages opinion citing three reasons which will...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'passages'' or 'passage's'?
Suggestion: passages'; passage's
...ially supported by goverment. Thus, the passages statement is not valid. Finally, the p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1376.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21212121212 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73621220092 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.57196969697 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.6977092754 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2857142857 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8571428571 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.71428571429 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153784975207 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546975318221 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0441474113333 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0949716441339 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432219730688 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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