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In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day.

The passage here discusses a propsal for a mandatory policy of an option for employees to work for 4 days per week with 80% of the usual pay. The author says that it will be beneficial for both the companies and their employees. The lecturer disagrees. He says that it will not be beneficial for both of them and attacks the claims made by the author.

Firstly, the passage says that companies will increase their profits if they put this policy in effect. It states that since employees will be less overworked they are less prone to make errors. The lecturer points out some flaws in the passage and says that it will not affect the profit made by the companies. If people opt for 4 day work week, then companies will have to hire more people to make up for their work and that will come at some additional costs. The company will have to spend money on thei training and medical beneficts for the extra employees it will hire. Furthermore, companies will also have to accomodate more office space for these extra employees. This will again incur additional cost and will balance out the money, a company saves by adopting this policy.

Secondly, the passage mentions that employement rate will decrease if this policy is put into effect because more people can be hired to make up for the people opting for 4 day work week. The lecturer refutes these claims. He says that apart from the fact that hiring new workers is costly, the companies might expect people opting for 4 day work week to work harder to make up for the time lost. Apart from that, companies' expectations might change from their employees; companies might expect them to work overtime making the life of the employees opting for 4 day work week unpleasant. So this policy might not create additional jobs as stated in the passage.

Thirdly, the passage states that people opting for this policy can be benefitted as they will have some additional time and can use it according to their needs. The lecturer disagrees. He says that there is a risk of reducing the quality of life for these employees as their job statbility will decrease compared to the employees opting to work for 5 days a week. Employees opting for 4 day work week might be the first one to lose their job in a situation of an economic turmoil. Apart from that, people opting for 5 day work week will be preferred for management roles as they have consistent coverage about the company working.

Thus, the lecturer disagrees with the reading passage and says that having the policy of a 4 day work week will be harmful to both companies and their employees.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 230, 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.
...both the companies and their employees. The lecturer disagrees. He says that it wil...
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Line 3, column 342, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...companies. If people opt for 4 day work week, then companies will have to hire more ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 183, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...up for the people opting for 4 day work week. The lecturer refutes these claims. He ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 348, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...ght expect people opting for 4 day work week to work harder to make up for the time ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 573, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
... of the employees opting for 4 day work week unpleasant. So this policy might not cr...
^^^^
Line 7, column 397, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...a week. Employees opting for 4 day work week might be the first one to lose their jo...
^^^^
Line 7, column 528, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...from that, people opting for 5 day work week will be preferred for management roles ...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, apart from

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 5.04856512141 495% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 22.412803532 205% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2147.0 1373.03311258 156% => OK
No of words: 462.0 270.72406181 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64718614719 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.04702891845 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36572165122 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.385281385281 0.540411800872 71% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 651.6 419.366225166 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0633129506 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5909090909 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265742708204 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10311548902 0.0996497079465 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0965612619647 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198388165052 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0652962295429 0.0443174109184 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.69 12.2367328918 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, apart from

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