The reading and the lecture both discuss the advantages and disadvantages of implementing taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food products. The author claims that such taxes are beneficial to promote healthy life style. However, the lecturer casts doubt about the claims made in the reading. She asserts that implementing taxes would encourage unhealthy eating habits.
The first allegation of script is that increasing taxes would encourage people no to buy cigarettes because of it's high price. In contrast, the lecturer highlights the fact that increasing the price of cigarettes do not cause people not to to buy it, instead, it causes people to buy the low quality product which is more harmful to their health. Thus, it is an unhealthy practice.
Second, according to the script adding taxes lift the burden on the less fortunate income category of the society. However, the lecturer also disputes this points. He contends that adding taxes would harm the low income people since both the high income workers and low income workers would pay the same price for a pack of cigarettes. Therefore, it is not fair for the poor people
Finally, the lecturer contradicts the claims made in the reading that adding taxes on cigarettes provide more money for the government to spend on public welfare. She contends that governments would eases policies to forbid smoking in public places because they need more money. Moreover, the government would huge deficits in budget.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 80, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...increasing taxes would encourage people no to buy cigarettes because of its high p...
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Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: to
...e of cigarettes do not cause people not to to buy it, instead, it causes people to bu...
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Line 6, column 200, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'ease'
Suggestion: ease
...re. She contends that governments would eases policies to forbid smoking in public pl...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1238.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 239.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17991631799 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57640039074 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518828451883 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 377.1 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.5866725213 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2307692308 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3846153846 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53846153846 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less 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: 0.247491021642 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.085493600916 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647590262699 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144344852858 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412609245896 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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