When we think about predicting earthquakes the various methods suggested in the reading may seem valid But they do not hold clear evidence and therefore the reasons for each method are questionable Let s start off with the animal behavior Well it is actua | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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When we think about predicting earthquakes, the various methods suggested in the reading may seem valid. But they do not hold clear evidence, and therefore, the reasons for each method are questionable.

Let’s start off with the animal behavior. Well, it is actually not true that animals act differently before earthquakes. Instead, it is likely that these animals are simply reacting to mild shaking rather than foretelling that a destructive earthquake is striking. And of course, minor trembling does not always lead to earthquakes. So, blindly relying on the changes in animal behaviors is not the best option.

Second, headaches are not a reliable sign of the natural disaster. As a matter of fact, headaches are one of the rarest symptoms before earthquakes, meaning not many people go through the pain as a prior notice. Because the amount of magnetite inside our brains is so small, the sensitivity system may barely be influenced. And you know, most importantly, we don’t encounter headaches just because of earthquakes, do we?

And lastly, relying on radon emission is also not a practical way to predict earthquakes. Unfortunately, radon emission from rocks does not always forecast earthquakes. In some cases, radon emission can also be caused by landslides, crushing rocks, or other impacts that lead to rock fractures. So, we should not dismiss other factors that can increase the concentration of radon in our atmosphere. I mean, relying on radon emission might just be responding to false alarm

Both the reading and lecture discuss about various earthquake predicting methods. Former gives three methods of predicting eathquake and latter dismisses the three warning tools as unreliable.

First of all, the author of the reading claims that observing animal behavior leads to predicting earthquake. The lecturer refutes this idea by saying that animal bahaviors can be seen for mild shaking, trembling. That shakings are not associated with earthquake in most of the cases. That's why this predicting method holds no water as reliable tool.

Furthermore, the reading says that human headache occuring can be used for earthquake predicting. The lecturer counters this by saying that headache is a rare symptoms and its unreliable. Human brain holds small amount of magnetite and that barely influenced by earthquake. As a result , it is not a valid methods as describe in reading for predicting eartquake.

Finally, the author of the reading discusses about measuring radon emission to predict earthquake. However, the author of the lecture doesn't agree with this idea of radio active emission. Lecturer doesn't think this is as pragmatic way to think only earthquake causes emission of radon gas. Rather landslides, crushing rocks are the reasons for emission of radon. So, if it is taken consideration for predicting earthquake, then it might be a false alarm or signal for earthquake.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, as a result, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => 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: 1179.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 219.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38356164384 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84690116678 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80793959931 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.566210045662 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 347.4 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 14.7687357467 49.2860985944 30% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.6 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.6 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13333333333 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24040115455 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0864526943236 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575079891486 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153793123085 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0219718204875 0.0443174109184 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.33 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, as a result, first of all

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