The reading passages discusses an interesting topic about how Agnostid, a primitive arthropods relative of insects, may have live 450 million years ago. The article provides three hypothesis supported with solid arguments. However, the lecturer casts doubts on the hypothesis made by the article and rebuttes each of the arguments of the reading passage.
First, the article suggests the agnostids could have live as free swimming predators considering others primitive arthropods were predators as well. Challenging this point, the lecturer explains that a good predator needs excellent vision or a special organ to sense the prey. On the contrary, the agnostids had poor eyes and even many of them were blind.
Second, the article mentions the agnostids could live as a seafloor dwellers, comparing the similarities with the way of living of some arthropods, eating dead organisms and baterias from the seafloor. The lecturers refuttes this hypotesis by arguing that seafloor creatures usually live in a reduced area and presents a slow movility. On the contrary, the agnostids were found in big extensions suggesting they moved very fast.
Finally, the article proposes that the agnostids could have been parasites, living form bigger creatures. The lecturer questions this idea by explaining that the large population found of agnostids could have killed all the creatures they parasited. Consequently, all the animals would have perished. Thus, this point is destroyed by the lecturer.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 181, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'hypothesis' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'hypotheses', 'hypothesises'.
Suggestion: hypotheses; hypothesises
...n years ago. The article provides three hypothesis supported with solid arguments. However...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, however, may, second, so, thus, well, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1270.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.52173913043 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76412338217 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604347826087 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 385.2 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.35118734 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6923076923 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6923076923 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76923076923 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.449362064386 0.272083759551 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147852031213 0.0996497079465 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116567797935 0.0662205650399 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264973058482 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0599813633833 0.0443174109184 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.44 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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