Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the specific theories discussed in the reading passage.

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Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the specific theories discussed in the reading passage.

The reading and lecture are both about the Brachiosaurus' habitat. The author of the reading states that Brachiosaurus lived in water. However, the lecturers dispute the author's arguments, and she is of the opinion that this particular dinosaur lived on land.

To begin with, the author believes that Brachiosaurus couldn't stand on land as their short legs were unable to suppose their weight. The lecturer disagree that point by claiming that there was fossil evidences of Brachiosaurus' footprints on land. The evidences show that some sauropods walked on land with four feet.

Secondly, the reading states that Brachiosaurus' neck couldn't reach trees due to the weight of its head. In contrast, the lecturer refutes this by mentioning that Brachiosaurus could easily feed on land plants, and lift its neck like a giraffe. In addition, she points out there are plenty of plants at its body height, even if it could only reach out its neck horizontally.

Finally, the author claims that Brachiosaurus' nostrils are located at the top of its head, which means that it could breathe like swimmers' snorkels. The lecturer dismisses that point. She cites the evidence of bone fossils indicating that these dinosaurs had narrow feet, like elephants, which are unfit to live in water.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 55, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
... the author believes that Brachiosaurus couldnt stand on land as their short legs were ...
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Line 3, column 147, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'disagrees'.
Suggestion: disagrees
...e to suppose their weight. The lecturer disagree that point by claiming that there was f...
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Line 5, column 54, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
... reading states that Brachiosaurus neck couldnt reach trees due to the weight of its he...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in addition, in contrast, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1076.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 208.0 270.72406181 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17307692308 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79765784423 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68295077332 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 145.348785872 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572115384615 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 313.2 419.366225166 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.5246393367 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.6666666667 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3333333333 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.91666666667 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.0796762356349 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467281476782 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522232006745 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0536849445701 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0225539566008 0.0443174109184 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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