The reading and the listening passages are both about Coal ash, which is a material that contains small amounts of potentially harmful chemicals. The article mentions that the U.S governments should create new, much stricter regulations for handling and storing coal ash. However, power companies' representatives have the opposite view, which the lecturer challenges each point that was made by the writer.
First, he reading passage states that companies already use liner to prevent wastes from leaking to the environment and must use liner for every new pond or landfill. However, the professor casts doubt on this information by saying that the liner is only used by specific companies, who use only new field or new pond. Also, she says that the harmful materials leak to soil and contaminate the water. Thus, regulations must be in old and new landfills.
Second, the reading passage mentions that the consumers may become concerned about recycling coal ash if there is a new regulation because it is dangerous. Thus, stop buying the products. The lecturer explains that the mercury is one of materials that people had concern about it because of the regulations, but consumers still use it and recycle it.
Third, the reading passage points out that the new regulations will increase the cost of disposing and handlining the materials by power companies. On another hand, the lecturer rebuts this point by explaining that it will cost only 1% when it is compared to the cost of environmental damage, which is $15 billions. Thus, it is worth for a clearer environment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 179, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: S
...micals. The article mentions that the U.S governments should create new, much str...
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Line 1, column 408, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...each point that was made by the writer. First, he reading passage states that co...
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Line 3, column 11, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'reads'.
Suggestion: reads
... was made by the writer. First, he reading passage states that companies already u...
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Line 3, column 454, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tions must be in old and new landfills. Second, the reading passage mentions tha...
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Line 5, column 352, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... consumers still use it and recycle it. Third, the reading passage points out th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, third, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10810810811 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74179124651 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567567567568 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7528152149 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.769230769 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9230769231 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.461513309959 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152152282113 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109465280696 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26603054999 0.162205337803 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100480426219 0.0443174109184 227% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 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.