The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones."In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the

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The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.

"In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses, and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville."

In the presented argument, the city mayor wants to build multi-million doller subway system to decrease traffic congestion in the city. According to argument buses serve in the city as the only form of public transportation, and residents complain about inconsistant buses and lack of safty during bus riding. As per plan, subway will run 24 hours, in this way residents will spend less time in traffic, which will increase their productivity at work and this will improve Briggsville's economy. This argument is based in certain assumptions, which if comes true will strengthen the argument or if comes false will weaken the argument.

Argument assumes that buses doesn't operate in the city for twenty four hours. There is no information given in the argument whether buses are running 24 hours or not. It is possible that buses are running in the city for 24 hours. If it is true then spending multi-million doller on subway system may not be worth.

Author assumes that, people in Briggsville city wants to use public transport to go to work. If this assumption is true, then putting subway system will go another way of public trasportation to people. What if people like to use their personal transportation means to go to work, and they find it more convienient? Then even if new subway system is there, people might not use it. To answer this question, auther needs to conduct a survey to understand that new subway system is actually a need in the city.

Another assumption is that, by building subway system will decrease traffic time for residents and it will increase their work productivity, due to which economy of Briggsville will improve. If this assumption comes false, new subway system might decrease traffic time, but it may or may not increase productivity. It could happen also city residents use their time saved from traffic for fun activies or spending more time with family instead of working more, then this may not have any effect on economy.

Thus, in conclusion, author need to collect more data and conduct analysis to know wheather subway system actually needed in the city or not.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 549, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
... is based in certain assumptions, which if comes true will strengthen the argument...
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Line 3, column 29, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...gument. Argument assumes that buses doesnt operate in the city for twenty four hou...
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Line 3, column 60, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-four
...at buses doesnt operate in the city for twenty four hours. There is no information given in...
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Line 3, column 232, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...s are running in the city for 24 hours. If it is true then spending multi-million ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, may, so, then, thus, in conclusion, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1767.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 357.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94957983193 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65830020075 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470588235294 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4799739066 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.941176471 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.17647058824 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181972791935 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0694725733521 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627395342831 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102870122636 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0378732327403 0.0628817314937 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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