tpo 57
The reading and the listening both discuss whether Amtrak, a type of intercity train in the US, should be sold to private companies or not. The author supports the critic’s ideas believing that the US government should not own Amtrak anymore. The lecturer, however, strongly opposes these critics by stating three reasons against the reading’s suggestions.
First, the author claims that Amtrak is a waste of money for the government, as the administers spend a great deal of money to provide US residents with Amtrak routes all over the country even in remote districts, which have fewer populations. A few people use this means of transportation, therefore these costly, useless services result in losing quite a bit of money every year. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this by expressing that the prime purpose of Amtrak is to supply all citizens in the US with commuting facilities whether they live in remote areas or not. This is injustice for those individuals living in farther areas that officials sell Amtrak to private companies since they stop serving Amtrak routes in these areas.
Second, according to the passage, Amtrak exploits government financial supports by having cheaper tickets which is unfair to other private companies for transportation that do not receive any funds from the government. Nonetheless, the professor supports a contradictory view as compared to that of the reading, she describes that the government does grant other private companies as well. For instance, in the airline industry, it builds center towers, pays for staff in airports, and supplies satellites that forecast weather. If the government did not support these private industries, they indeed would not be able to survive.
Third, the passage goes on to mention that commuting via trains is not very popular among US residents. For this, the government should invest money for more favored means of commuting services instead of funding Amtrak. Nevertheless, the professor disagrees with this statement by explaining that people do not use Amtrak because it is slow and has low quality. In fact, if the government invests more money in this industry for upgrading the trains, the general public will travel with these trains more frequently, much the same way people use trains for traveling in such places as Japan and Europe.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 244, 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.
...vernment should not own Amtrak anymore. The lecturer, however, strongly opposes the...
^^^
Line 4, column 456, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... industry for upgrading the trains, the general public will travel with these trains more freq...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, third, well, for instance, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1969.0 1373.03311258 143% => OK
No of words: 378.0 270.72406181 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20899470899 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71723001093 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 145.348785872 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550264550265 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 594.0 419.366225166 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1528955161 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.266666667 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.2 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
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: 0.462094809901 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152619636801 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0811498720998 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271325182039 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.025306856111 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
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 244, 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.
...vernment should not own Amtrak anymore. The lecturer, however, strongly opposes the...
^^^
Line 4, column 456, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... industry for upgrading the trains, the general public will travel with these trains more freq...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, third, well, for instance, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1969.0 1373.03311258 143% => OK
No of words: 378.0 270.72406181 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20899470899 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71723001093 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 145.348785872 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550264550265 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 594.0 419.366225166 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1528955161 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.266666667 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.2 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
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: 0.462094809901 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152619636801 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0811498720998 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271325182039 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.025306856111 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
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.