Should the government sell Amtrak and let a private company run it instead? The answer is: no.
First, losing money due to underused routes, people who complain about this fail to understand that the main purpose of Amtrak is not to make a profit but to provide needed transportation services to citizens of the United States. Some of these citizens live in remote areas and yes, it’s true, train routes to these hard-to-reach areas are underused and expensive to maintain. But citizens living in these places have just as much right to government services as people living in more accessible areas do. So it would be wrong to sell Amtrak to a private company that would cut these routes.
Second, the idea that government funding of Amtrak is unfair to Amtrak’s competitors, that’s just silly. The United States support the airline industry in all kinds of ways. For example, it pays for the building of air traffic control towers and the training for the air traffic control officers. It also pays for the weather satellites that the airlines depend on to fly safely. The truth is private airlines and other forms of mass transportation couldn’t exist without lots of financial support from the government.
Third, it’s true that train travel is less popular than car travel in the United States, but that’s only because the Amtrak system is out of date. If people in the United States had trains that were affordable and fast, they’d gladly take them and leave their cars at home. We know this because that’s what people in Japan and Europe do. The governments in those places have invested in high-speed train lines and train travel is very popular. What the United States government should do is invest more money in Amtrak to improve the service.
The article states that Amrtak, an owned governmentally train service, should be sold to private companies and provides three reasons for supporting. However, the professor explains that Amtrak is a specific train service and should not be sold to the non-governmetally company to run and refutes each author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that the government wastes its money by keeping and maintaining Amtrak. The professor opposes this point by saying that this is a shortsighted view because the purpose of Amtrak not only is not to make a profit, but is to service remote areas, where there are no proper means of transportation. if the private company buy Amtrak, will cut all kind of routes reached those regions.
Second, the article posits that while private companies sold tickets' transportation much expensive, Amtrak tickets are cheaper than those companies. In contrast, the professor says that all private companies such as airlines in all way rely on government support to keep them working, training officers is a just one example. in other words, the private companies are dependent on financial support of government.
Third, the reading says that its better government spends its money on other areas because people use their own cars for transportation. The professor casts doubt on this point by explaing that its possible to encourage people to use Amtrak-like transportation if government try to improve services effictively, high speed is one issue that other nations like Japan use its high-tech means with realy high speed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... are no proper means of transportation. if the private company buy Amtrak, will cu...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: In
...raining officers is a just one example. in other words, the private companies are ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, third, while, in contrast, kind of, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1319.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3185483871 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8862603537 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58064516129 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2958113652 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.9 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.6 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257477759213 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105030445186 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422451149008 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156223246593 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0785497485547 0.0443174109184 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.3589403974 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.