Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a met

The author in the passage states that cloud seeding, a method of reducing hail has been effective in protecting crops from hail. Some prominent bits of evidence mentioned in the passage are based on laboratory experiments, evidence from Asia and local studies. However, the lecturer gives several reasons to question the evidence given in the passage. She says that its not all clear that cloud seeding has been all effective.

While the passage states that experiments support the idea that cloud seeding is effective, the lecturer disagrees to it by stating some facts and explanation on it. She says that silver iodide creating snow instead of hail might be true but silver iodide cannot prevent any precipitation from forming clouds. Also, seeding all the clouds will increase the risk of drought and problems from water scarcity.

On evidence from Asia, the lecturer states that cloud seeding has been tried in urban areas where air polluted particles may have been responsible for the desired results and so cloud seeding may not work in unpolluted rural areas in United States.

Finally, on local studies, the lecturer disregards the passage by stating that no evidence actually exist that tells the hail damage to crops has been reduced. She also says that natural variation in cold weather has nothing to do with cloud seeding.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 377, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ds will increase the risk of drought and problems from water scarcity. On evid...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, however, may, so, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1130.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 220.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13636363636 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85128510684 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41877983036 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572727272727 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 344.7 419.366225166 82% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.504123536 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.0 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.3 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207379594485 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0807555136955 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0558138152973 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130620932389 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0177324298588 0.0443174109184 40% => 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: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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