The reading passage and the lecture are both about agnostids, a group of marine animals that became extinct about 450 million years ago, and where they lived or how they behaved. The reading passage brings three area around the world to show how agnostids have lived. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article by providing three decent reasons.
Firstly, the reading passage state that agnostids were free-swimming predators like other arthropods. Although they were small animals there were smaller organisms for them to prey. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He believes that arthropods which preyed on small organisms always had large and strong eyes to be able to attract preys; but, fossils show that agnostids had small and poor eyes, sometimes they were even blind. Therefore, they could not be predators.
Secondly, the reading material states that agnostids were seafloor dwellers like some arthropods and they would have survived by scavenging dead organisms or by grazing on bacteria. This point is rejected by the lecturer. He states that arthropods which were seafloor dwellers did not move fast and typically occupied in some limited area; but, agnostids’ fossils found in a large area that show they could move fast and easily from one area to another one. Therefore, they never could be seafloor dwellers.
Finally, the reading passage says that agnostids were parasites and they might have lived on primitive fish or on other arthropods. This point is refuted by the lecturer. He states that parasites lived within a certain limited population but actually agnostids were lived in very large groups. As a result of this conflict, They could not be parasites.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1451.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 278.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21942446043 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50446782594 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514388489209 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 63.499477114 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.6875 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.375 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.625 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.457517292141 0.272083759551 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146588226141 0.0996497079465 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106633557877 0.0662205650399 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.288535085502 0.162205337803 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0547925140258 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.7 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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