Both the reading and the lecture discuss how agnostids which were a group of ancient marine animals, have lived. The author of the passage acclaims that they were a kind of primitive arthropods and proposes three different theories about the living of agnostids, however, the professor in the lecture believes that all of them are weak and rejects them one by one.
The first theory that the passage states is the agnostids were free-swimming predators. On the other hand, the professor in the lecture casts doubt on this idea and states that the fossils of agnostids have not any evidence of hunting. Hence, they were not hunters because they were poor in predation tools.
Second, the passage asserts that the agnostids probably have dwelled on the seafloor. However, the professor contradicts this theory and illustrates that seafloor animals cannot move quickly, hence, they occupy a small amount of area on the seafloor. But, the fossils of agnostids have been found in a variety of areas on the seafloor, hence, they should have been able to move quickly to move far distances.
Finally, the third theory that the passage states is that the agnostids were parasites and living on bigger organisms. But the professor challenges this theory and acclaims that agnostids breed a lot of children and had a big population. The professor believes that if the agnostids were parasites, they would have killed a lot of marines, hence, they should not have been parasites.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, so, third, well, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1234.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 244.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05737704918 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53175213624 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.475409836066 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6256060025 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.181818182 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1818181818 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.36363636364 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => 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: 0.470146577576 0.272083759551 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.201651006942 0.0996497079465 202% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601732084253 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303887893038 0.162205337803 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0296676361309 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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