Essay topics: The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex to its manager."One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complex were modified to restrict maximum wat

In this letter, the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex predicts that the company would have a dramatic increase profit by modifying showerheads to restrict the water flow throughout all buildings in this company. To support the prediction, the owner points out the change of water usage will results a considerable savings due to all the shower heads in the first three buildings were modified to one-third of the maximum water flow. In addition, the author indicates that no problems with this modification except for a few complains. Quite convincing though his argument may seem at fi...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 306, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'result'
Suggestion: result
...ints out the change of water usage will results a considerable savings due to all the s...
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Line 1, column 709, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...easoning that requires further analysis.The argument could ed up being pretty convi...
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Line 2, column 886, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: On
...thor's prediction is open to doubt.On the contrary, if it turns out to be the...
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Line 2, column 945, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... it turns out to be the other way around , then the prediction is strengthen inste...
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Line 2, column 971, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'strengthened'.
Suggestion: strengthened
...her way around , then the prediction is strengthen instead. In addition, the author recom...
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Line 3, column 94, Rule ID: TO_TOO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
... water flow of all twelve buildings due to few complains about this modification. ...
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Line 3, column 192, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eaching that conclusion, we need to know whether the present few complains about ...
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Line 3, column 663, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...to complain because they work very late everyday, for few complains about water modifica...
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Line 3, column 841, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Otherwise
...trength the owner's recommendation.Otherwise, the argument is undermined. Even if t...
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Line 4, column 77, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...monstrate both a decreasing water usage as well as no problems about the water flow modifi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, third, well, except for, in addition, such as, as well as, on the contrary, to start with, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.9520958084 193% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 93.0 55.5748502994 167% => OK
Nominalization: 34.0 16.3942115768 207% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3403.0 2260.96107784 151% => OK
No of words: 659.0 441.139720559 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16388467375 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06665523852 4.56307096286 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02049897724 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 204.123752495 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.382397572079 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1062.0 705.55239521 151% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.321571973 57.8364921388 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.15 119.503703932 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.95 23.324526521 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.2 5.70786347227 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162509798749 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642128053069 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664247181901 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10627510047 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0654325305042 0.0628817314937 104% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.3 14.3799401198 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.24 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 662 350
No. of Characters: 3321 1500
No. of Different Words: 244 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.072 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.017 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.783 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 230 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 179 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 135 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 92 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.967 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.395 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.212 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5