Amtrak is an intercity train service currently owned by the United States government There are a number of critics who believe that the government should not own Amtrak and that Amtrak should be sold to a privately owned company These critics put forward

The reading passage supports the idea that Amtrak should be sold to the private company rather than owned by the government. However, the professor maintains that selling Amtrak to private companies is not supportive.

First, the reading passage suggests that according to the critics, many Amtrak routes do not have enough passengers in less developed areas so that the government costs a lot and suffers great losses.On the contrary, the professor argues that rather than making profits, the main purpose of Amtrak is to provide convenience to the public of the United States. Besides, people living in these remote places have the same right to enjoy the government service as the people living in more accessible places. 

Second, the critics in reading passage insists that Amtrak creates negative influence on private transportation companies since they have to lower the ticket prices to compete with Amtrak. In contrast, the professor supports the idea that it is silly to say that funding Amtrak is unfair to Amtrak competitors. For example, the government supports the transportation industry in many kinds of ways, such as building the control tower and training the air traffic control officers. Thus, private airline could not exist without lots of financial support from the government.

Third, the reading contends that many travelers prefer to use private cars or other means of transport instead of the train, which means that the government should spend money in highway system will be more profitable. Nonetheless, the professor contends that if trains become more comfortable and faster, people would like to leave their cars at home. In fact, the government in these countries have invested high-speed train line and train travel is quite popular. Therefore, what the United States government should do is to provide more money to improve the train services. 

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: On
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, if, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, third, thus, for example, in contrast, in fact, such as, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1593.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32775919732 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61540599945 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551839464883 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.0812007165 49.2860985944 185% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.818181818 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1818181818 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4545454545 7.06452816374 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34639978159 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12647664628 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809586559299 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206220967471 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0735850668053 0.0443174109184 166% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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