The reading and the lecture are both about Amtrak and its relationship with the government.
The author of the reading tells that there are several critics who suggest that the government should not possess Amtrak, and they are of the opinion that this railroad service should be sold to a private company. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that government should invest on Amtrak rather than selling it.
To begin with, the critics argue that the government wastes money on Amtrak railroad services. The article mentions that because Amtrak routes includes remote and less populated areas, these routes are underused and can not cover the cost of maintaining these routes. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that who complains about losing money on Amtrak fails to understand, because there are also people living in remote areas. She says that the people living in remote areas also have rights to use railroad system with people living in crowded areas.
Secondly, the critics suggest that the government's ownership of Amtrak is not fair to privately owned transportation companies such as airlines. In the article, it is said that because the government does not support airline companies financially, they can not lower ticket prices. However, the lecturer rebuts this by mentioning the government's full support to the airline companies. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that with the government's help Air traffic control towers are being built and training of air traffic control officers is being provided.
Finally, the author posits that the government should support national transportation, rather than financing Amtrak. She also says that most travelers use other ways of transport, such as private cars. In contrast, the lecturer claims that Amtrak is out of date, that is why people tend to use other means of transport. She notes that in Europe and Japan train system is more popular, because it is more affordable and faster.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 214, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ce should be sold to a private company. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 6, column 40, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
... Secondly, the critics suggest that the governments ownership of Amtrak is not fair to priv...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 330.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18181818182 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55579429555 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484848484848 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 513.0 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9849206741 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.588235294 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4117647059 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.29411764706 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.33123973671 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104399522605 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103630968848 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17810027421 0.162205337803 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0863490122925 0.0443174109184 195% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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