The reading and lecture both discusses the collapse of the civilization on the Easter Island. While the author of reading argues by giving three major theory, the lecturer disputes the claims presented in the article. He states that all the theories stated are fallacious.
According to the reading one of the reasons for perisihing of the Eastern Island people was due to their exessive use of wood. The construction of statues, transporation, cooking and agriculture led to deforestestion and ultimately the end of civilization. The lecturer challenges this argument. He states that evidence that shows that the people of Eastern island replaces the forest by grasslands.The grasslands prevented erosion and provided essential for the civilization.
The second theory stated by author is that the rats were responible in eating up the the new shoots of the new plants hence causing deterimental effect on regrowth of the forests. The lecturer however, asserts that rats were used by Easter Island people as a food source. Bones of rats were found along with chicken showing that thery were consumed by the inhabitants.
Lastly, the author puts forth the idea that war between short and long eared people caused crumbling of civilization. The lecturer in contrast, scrutinizes the theory stating that the war took placed in 1618 which was hundred of years before the expolartion of Easter Island took place. He states that the population had decresed by two-third when the island was revisited by James Cook. Hence the lecturer believes that all the theories are erronous and destuction of Easter Island remains a mystery.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 400, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...sland replaces the forest by grasslands.The grasslands prevented erosion and provid...
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Line 5, column 82, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...t the rats were responible in eating up the the new shoots of the new plants hence caus...
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Line 5, column 82, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...t the rats were responible in eating up the the new shoots of the new plants hence caus...
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Line 5, column 181, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ntal effect on regrowth of the forests. The lecturer however, asserts that rats wer...
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Line 7, column 219, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
...t the war took placed in 1618 which was hundred of years before the expolartion of East...
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Line 7, column 389, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...the island was revisited by James Cook. Hence the lecturer believes that all the theo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, lastly, second, so, third, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => 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: 1372.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25670498084 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81308516207 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540229885057 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 415.8 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3682664822 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6428571429 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35714285714 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11984628478 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0441710187526 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389235583045 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0725520296581 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0171833960174 0.0443174109184 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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