tpo 39 mass-extinction
The material discusses several theories that might cause a mass-extinction at the end of the Triassic period. While the reading looks at the topic from one perspective, the listening challenges certain points outlined in the reading passage.
Firstly, the reading details specific points regarding this topic. Namely, sea-level fluctuation might cause this extinction. Next, global cooling due to volcanic activity might involve in a mass-extinction. Finally, an asteroid hit the Earth might cause big destruction.
Conversely, the lecture challenges the points. One specific contradiction is coastal and shallow-water habitats usually are adapted to environmental changes; furthermore, the sea-level fluctuation was quite gradually, so sea level should go down much more suddenly to have any negative impact on the environment. In addition to that, sulfur dioxide that causes global cooling after any volcanic activity stay for a short period, becasue it could be cleared out by combining with water and fall as rains. As a result, sulfur dioxide should stay long enough to cause mass-extinction. One final point, there are no asteroids craters dated back when this mass-extinction happened; on the other hand, there are other craters that dated back 12 million years before the extinction occurred.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 787, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n years before the extinction occurred.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, regarding, so, while, in addition, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1109.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 196.0 270.72406181 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.65816326531 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74165738677 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07873816626 2.5805825403 119% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.673469387755 0.540411800872 125% => OK
syllable_count: 333.0 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 68.5253165499 49.2860985944 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.818181818 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8181818182 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3636363636 7.06452816374 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.121656597157 0.272083759551 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0458704437068 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651361096591 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0833477806261 0.162205337803 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309206109625 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.25 12.2367328918 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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