The reading and the lecturer are both about the cane toads that are native to Central and South America. The author of the reading states that the large population of toads could cause effects on small native animals, and mentions some measures should be taken to stop increasing growth of toads and provided three reasons for support. However, the lecturer explains that these measures were unsuccessful and probably may cause environmental damage.
First, the article conveys that national fence could be built to prevent the widespread of toads in Austria. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that this solution is totally ineffective because the toads could lay eggs on streams or rivers. Consequently, water can carry the eggs from one side to another side of rivers. Where the population might not get decreased.
Second, the text explains that volunteers can find toads and destroy them if the Australian government conducts a camp. Nevertheless, the lecture refutes this point by saying that native frogs can also be destroyed unknowingly because of volunteers. The frogs may be at serious risk when it was young.
Third, the article posits that the virus was invented by researchers to destroy the population of toads. However, the professor claims that the reptiles and amphibians would be transferred to other continents through pet collectors. Hence the native Central and South America reptiles may cause harm to reptiles in other continents. As a result, it may lead to damage of the whole ecosystem.
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- TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expla 73
- TPO-13 - Integrated Writing Task Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other lar 81
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 348, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Where” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...rom one side to another side of rivers. Where the population might not get decreased....
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Line 7, column 234, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ther continents through pet collectors. Hence the native Central and South America re...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1299.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 250.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.196 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6393362802 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 386.1 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.4315475216 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.7857142857 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8571428571 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21428571429 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.367149899899 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109306262309 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725977696765 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201425907384 0.162205337803 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424673502935 0.0443174109184 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.