Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of social benefits.
The author of the reading passage and the professor both discuss whether or not the government should impose high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products. The author agrees with this idea by deliberating three advantages. However, the professor thinks that the author's theories contain some defects.
First of all, the author states that people will buy fewer cigarettes or unhealthy products due to raising taxes on these items. On the contrary, the professor indicates that if the government raise the taxes on cigarettes, smokers would buy the cheap and low-quality cigarettes. And these low-quality cigarettes contain more harmful substances. Similarly to the unhealthy foods, people will still buy the junk food, worse, they don't have money on healthy food at all.
In addition, the author claims that taxing people who engage in unhealthy behaviors creates extra income, and taxes can be used to cover the medical costs. However, the professor refutes the author's idea by expressing that it is unfair to the people who have different income. Lower-income smokers will have much burden than the high-income smokers. It can apply to other unhealthy products.
Finally, the author raises the point that government will increases revenue by add high rate of taxation on cigarettes. Besides, the government can use the revenue to benefit public welfare such as building stadiums or creating public parks. On the other hand, the professor says that if the government really depends on the cigarette taxes to build the public, it would open this public area for smoker allow to smoke. Because the government doesn't want to lose great income.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 66, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... passage and the professor both discuss whether or not the government should impose high taxes...
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Line 3, column 347, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...rettes contain more harmful substances. Similarly to the unhealthy foods, people will sti...
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Line 3, column 430, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ll still buy the junk food, worse, they dont have money on healthy food at all. ...
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Line 5, column 192, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...sts. However, the professor refutes the authors idea by expressing that it is unfair to...
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Line 7, column 59, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'increase'
Suggestion: increase
...r raises the point that government will increases revenue by add high rate of taxation on...
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Line 7, column 411, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'smoking'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: smoking
... open this public area for smoker allow to smoke. Because the government doesnt want to ...
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Line 7, column 421, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... public area for smoker allow to smoke. Because the government doesnt want to lose grea...
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Line 7, column 444, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... allow to smoke. Because the government doesnt want to lose great income.
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, however, if, really, similarly, so, still, in addition, such as, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 10.4613686534 19% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1397.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29166666667 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57755897347 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549242424242 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.5069472097 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.1333333333 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.2 7.06452816374 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
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: 0.284566882551 0.272083759551 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0918289388659 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0858972097433 0.0662205650399 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170346989008 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0357130650243 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
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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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 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.