The reading passage and the lecture have conflicting opinions about whether or not the policy of implementing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products is beneficial or not. The author believes that the policy is beneficial for three reasons. On the other hand, the lecturer argues that all these benefits can be challenged.
First, The reading passage asserts that high taxes on these products will not encourage people to participate in these unhealthy behaviors such as, high taxes on healthy food will decrease overweight problems.
The lecturer, however, disagrees with this opinion. He mentions that imposing high taxes would not necessarily result in change in people's behavior. He explain that some people will proceed to smoke but just switching to lower quality products. These low quality products contain more harmful materials which will cause higher health risks.
Second, the passage believes that taxes will create sort of fairness because that will cover for the medical cost for smokers and not be burden on the society. The lecturer contends that there are different ways for fairness. she elaborates on that by stating that some people may feel that these high taxes will be unfair because they have low-income and they pay the same amount of taxes of high-income people. Hence, low-income people will feel that these taxes are burden on their shoulders.
Finally, the author mentions that the income from high taxes will increase the revenue for the government. Therefore, the authorities will be able to fund some projects that will benefit everyone in the society. The lecturer rebuts this claim by mentioning that this is a downside not a benefit. He explains that these taxes are millions of dollars and the government will try to keep these tremendous amount of money by all ways. Thus, the government may loosen the laws related to banning smoking outdoors just to maintain this revenue keep coming in.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 69, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...lecture have conflicting opinions about whether or not the policy of implementing high taxes o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'explains'.
Suggestion: explains
...esult in change in peoples behavior. He explain that some people will proceed to smoke ...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 227, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
... there are different ways for fairness. she elaborates on that by stating that some...
^^^
Line 4, column 438, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...-income people. Hence, low-income people will feel that these taxes are burden on...
^^
Line 5, column 421, Rule ID: ALL_WAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'always'?
Suggestion: always
...eep these tremendous amount of money by all ways. Thus, the government may loosen the la...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, sort of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17777777778 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46543451483 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51746031746 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 45.0038829544 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.9411764706 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
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: 0.101724764024 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0390409754977 0.0996497079465 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0241428241699 0.0662205650399 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0608501756258 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271074268925 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => 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: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 69, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...lecture have conflicting opinions about whether or not the policy of implementing high taxes o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'explains'.
Suggestion: explains
...esult in change in peoples behavior. He explain that some people will proceed to smoke ...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 227, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
... there are different ways for fairness. she elaborates on that by stating that some...
^^^
Line 4, column 438, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...-income people. Hence, low-income people will feel that these taxes are burden on...
^^
Line 5, column 421, Rule ID: ALL_WAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'always'?
Suggestion: always
...eep these tremendous amount of money by all ways. Thus, the government may loosen the la...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, sort of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17777777778 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46543451483 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51746031746 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 45.0038829544 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.9411764706 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47058823529 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
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: 0.101724764024 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0390409754977 0.0996497079465 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0241428241699 0.0662205650399 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0608501756258 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271074268925 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => 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: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.