As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate---and, perhaps, even cruel---when one considers all the potential uses of such money. - GRE Issue 98
The speaker asserts that using public resources to support the arts is unjustifiable in a society where some people go without food, jobs, and basic survival skills. It might be tempting to agree with the speaker on the basis that art is not a fundamental human need, and that government is not entirely trustworthy when it comes to its motives and methods. However, the speaker overlooks certain economic and other societal benefits that accrue when government assumes an active role in supporting the arts.
The implicit rationale behind the speaker's statement seems to be that cultural enric...
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Sentence: The Canadian government also provides various incentives for American productoion companies to fn and produce their movies in Canada.
Error: productoion Suggestion: production
Sentence: These incentives have sparked a boon for the Canadian economy, thereby sumulating job growth and wealth that can be applied toward education, job training, and social programs.
Error: sumulating Suggestion: simulating
flaws:
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.267 0.35
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 720 350
No. of Characters: 3678 1500
No. of Different Words: 358 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.18 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.108 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.78 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 283 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 226 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 148 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 87 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.959 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.679 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.267 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.489 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5