The reading and the lecture are both about the Amtrack train, which is owned by the government in the United States. More specifically, in regard to the passage, the writer puts forth the idea that this train should be sold to the private sector. In the listening passage, the writer is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws in the writer's claims. In fact, the professor believes that this suggestions will not solve any problem and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the reading states this train provides its service to all citizens in the country and in so many far places around the USA without covering the cost of operating the train. The article mentions that the government loses a lot of money each year because of the unused routes, so if the government sells this train the private companies will cut these routes. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that these people cannot understand that these routes were made not for making money, but its made for providing services for transporting the citizens. Additionally, she points out that people who lived in far places have the same rights as the people who live in common areas, and it's not fair to cut these routes.
Secondly, the author suggests that government does not support the other private sectors such as airlines, so the ticket price on the train is less than in the other types of transportation. In the article is said that this competition is unfair to the other sectors against the public sector. Again, the speaker specifically asserts in this idea by suggesting that the government supports all kinds of transport in the country including airlines which give them weather services. He goes on to say that the other public sectors could not be existing without support from the government.
Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by supporting that rail travel is unimportant in the country because most users use their cars to travel long distances, Also the authorities should spend this amount of support in other places such as improving the highway system. Unsurprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that people use their cars because these trains are not fast and affordable for them. He notes that people in other countries like Japan and Europe use their cars because the trains have a high speed and it’s popular, Moreover the government should improve the service of the trains.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 401, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...s. In fact, the professor believes that this suggestions will not solve any problem ...
^^^^
Line 6, column 639, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ould improve the service of the trains.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in fact, such as, in regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2101.0 1373.03311258 153% => OK
No of words: 428.0 270.72406181 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90887850467 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47837511643 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 145.348785872 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497663551402 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 627.3 419.366225166 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.1198159235 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.3125 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.75 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171372905719 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0578833848636 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557231297867 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101176587554 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040599567579 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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