The passage and the lecture discuss the method in which employees work 4 days in a week instead of 5 days. The author supports this idea and mentions 3 reasons. On the other hand, the points made by the speaker is in direct contrast to the ones outlined in the passage. The lecturer refutes all 3 supporting reasons for 4-day work framework.
First, the lecturer refutes the point made by the author by clarifying that 4-day-work approach does not necessarily cost reducing. In fact, he claims this approach increases costs dramatically because the company will become obliged to spend more on medi...
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Sentence: Finally, the lecturer claims that 4-day-work approach is not benefitial to individuals.
Error: benefitial Suggestion: beneficial
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Score: 26 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
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No. of Words: 268 250
No. of Characters: 1311 1200
No. of Different Words: 147 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.046 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.892 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.324 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.588 7.5
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Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4