Earthworms and its effects on soil, plants, and animals
The passage and the lecture both are about the effects of earthworms on various environmental entities such as soil, plants, and animals. The author presents points showing how earthworms are beneficial while the lecturer believes otherwise and challenges each of the points.
To begin with, the author notes that earthworms change the structure of soil allowing it to better circulate the nutrients. Moreover, it moves organic matter that rests on the surface of the soil and mixes it into dipper soil. This organic matter called duff along with increased production of humus improves the fertility of the soil. The lecturer challenges this point by saying that earthworms actually damage forests by destroying the soil cover. She states the example of her friend who while working at the fishing site, found that the land near the shoreline where the baitworms were dumped was damaged. When he dug up the forest floor, it was the earthworms causing the deterioration of the soil.
Secondly, the author points out that earthworms may help in creating channels through burrowing. Plant roots can easily penetrate the soil using these channels. Worms are a valuable source of nitrogen which fosters plant growth. The lecturer's counterargument to this point is that earthworms damage wildflowers. In that, wherever the earthworms are increased, duff disappears in a few weeks, and so do the wildflowers. In addition to that, the soil will be deprived of the nutrients released by duff which are helpful to sprout plants. Consequently, it may destroy beautiful sites that attract photographers.
Lastly, it is noted in the passage that earthworms are beneficial to animals as well because of their protein, minerals, and vitamins rich bodies. They provide food sources for many other animals including birds, snakes, mammals, and invertebrates such as beetles and snails. The speaker rejects this point by noting that the duff destroyed by earthworms is the habitat of many animals such as salamanders, insects, and spiders. In the absence of these creatures, the animals who pray on them may get affected as well. This will lead to an imbalance in the forest ecosystem.
To sum up, the author believes earthworms are conducive to soil, plants, and animals, while the lecturer believes otherwise and provides arguments supporting his position.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 234, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...itrogen which fosters plant growth. The lecturers counterargument to this point is that e...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, if, lastly, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, while, in addition, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1979.0 1373.03311258 144% => OK
No of words: 374.0 270.72406181 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29144385027 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7701012219 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550802139037 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 419.366225166 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.0002125843 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.2380952381 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8095238095 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.32873941257 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0887662734131 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053643616465 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164102147786 0.162205337803 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333059503352 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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