TPO-43 - Integrated Writing Task Agnostids were a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago. Agnostid fossils can be found in rocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know that agnostids were primitiv

In the lecture, the professor deems that all of the three theories in the passage have serious weaknesses.

First and foremost, it is true that there are many free-swimming predators, but most of them have very large eyes and excellent vision ability to spot the preys. However, the agbistids only have tiny poorly developed eyes which are almost blind in water. So, if they were able to prey on other animals, there must be other sensory organs in their body that assist them. But it turns out that no such evidence was found from the fossil, meaning that agbistids were not necessarily free-swimming predators.

Moreover, seafloor dwellers usually can't move fast and stay at the same location. Therefor, seafloor dwellers only occupy a small area where they originate. However, the agbistids could be found in multiple sites, meaning that they could move fast and can spread a large distance, which is highly unusual for seafloor dwellers. So the seafloor dwellers theory can't hold water.

Last but not the least, parasites that stay within the hosts' body usually don't have large number, because too many parasites could kill off the hosts. Nevertheless, evidence from the fossil presents that the agbistids are in a vast amount. There were so many individuals at one site that the possibility of agbistids being parasites is actually ruled out.

Based on the aforementioned analysis, the professor argues against all of the three theories.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 42, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...n the lecture, the professor deems that all of the three theories in the passage have seri...
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Line 5, column 37, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... Moreover, seafloor dwellers usually cant move fast and stay at the same locatio...
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Line 5, column 55, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...loor dwellers usually cant move fast and stay at the same location. Therefor, sea...
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Line 5, column 362, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ellers. So the seafloor dwellers theory cant hold water. Last but not the least, ...
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Line 7, column 62, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'usually' is usually put before the verb 'body'.
Suggestion: usually body
...t, parasites that stay within the hosts body usually dont have large number, because too man...
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Line 7, column 75, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...that stay within the hosts body usually dont have large number, because too many par...
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Line 9, column 68, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... analysis, the professor argues against all of the three theories.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, well, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1218.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 237.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13924050633 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55717786058 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586497890295 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.4788761332 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6923076923 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2307692308 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07692307692 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.214994524323 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0728806490931 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414629601851 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0963870715867 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0682358642482 0.0443174109184 154% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => 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: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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