TPO-23
Both the author of the reading and the lecturer discuss the reasons of declining yellow cedars which began happening since about 1880. The author gives three reasons to explain the reduction of this species whereas the professor finds the reasons unconvincing and claims that there is still no specific explanation for such a phenomenon.
First off, the reading contributes the decline of yellow cedar to the insect parasites and specially the beetle. The fact that beetle larvae eat the wood is used as a support to this hypothesis. The lecturer, on the other hand, states that the healthy Cedar can resist the attack of insects because of containing chemicals which could completely destroy the beetle. The explanations to existence of beetle on destroyed cedars could be the fact that insects would attack unhealthy trees and they are not the main cause of reduction.
According to the passage, brown bears could be responsible for decline. It attributes the situation to the bears clawing habits for using the tree bark as food and mentions the aggressive feeding habits of bears. The speaker, on the contrary, refutes the effect of bear feeding in declining tree species due to the fact that there are no bears existing in the north-western coast where is a common place for Cedars and reduction happens there too.
Lastly the author asserts that the reduction could be caused by gradual changes of climate. The professor disagrees with this claim. Further he explains about the regular growing locations of this type of tree which could be lower elevation which is warm or could be the higher elevation which is cold and the tree continues living in both places so the change of temperature would not affect the growth of trees.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 367, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, lastly, so, still, whereas, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03448275862 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51874305704 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531034482759 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 419.366225166 102% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.783150971 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.666666667 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1666666667 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.360269839627 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128159377196 0.0996497079465 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0448589911811 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203238132022 0.162205337803 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580075808939 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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