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In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover.
The reading and lecture are both about frog population which is declined gradually. The author of the reading feels that frogs help human in many certain cases like eating the bugs and protect the human. The author provides some solution to increase the frog population. However, the lecturer challenged the claim made by the author. He is on the opinion that none of the proposals is practical and convenient.
To begin with, the author argues that human use different chemical substance to protect the crops from the insect. He also mentions that this chemical spread into the frogs resident and causes harm to the frog. The specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He states that farmers required to apply pesticides for holding the position on the market and also fair enough for economic growth. He also elaborates the point by bringing that they apply that chemical for the growing more crops, so if it will contain so much bad substance it also affects the growth of the crops.
Second, the writer suggests that several kinds of fungus effect the frog skin as a result, they could not consume water and die. He also claims that some antifungal medication would solve this problem. However, the lecturer rebuts this by mentioning this medicine must be applied to each individual frog which is difficult. He also claims that research shows that apply would not stop the disease to the next offspring and also need to apply them to eradicate the fungal problem.
Third, the author posits that human activities also the cause of the population decline like excessive use of water and drainage of wetland because frog uses both places to lay their egg. In contrast, the author position is that this is not the reason for the decline rather for global warming. He also mentions that due to global warming temperature increase and change the climate which is the cause of the disappearance.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 205, 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.
... eating the bugs and protect the human. The author provides some solution to increa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, third, in contrast, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1592.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94409937888 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39173989742 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518633540373 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.9586774251 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6470588235 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9411764706 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82352941176 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.331033879244 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108757678222 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0955180393803 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206573031055 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0234493343656 0.0443174109184 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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