the mass extinction
The listening and the reading materials have a conflict of opinions about some explanations of the mass extinction that happened at the end of the Triassic period. The writer in the reading passage explains three theories for this event. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that these theories are not good explanations.
First of all, the professor in the lecture makes it clear that the sea levels had a fluctuation at that time, but this happened during a long time. Thus, if the sea levels decreased gradually, it cannot be a reasonable theory in the widespread area. In contrast, the writer explains that this event has a major impact on the food chains and it caused the mass extinctions.
Second, the professor describes that if volcanoes released SO2, it had the influence of the short time and the atmosphere clear out of this gas. In addition, the SO2 combined with the water and went back to the earth as the rain. By contrast, the author holds the opposite view that this issue has an impact on the climate and led to the extinction.
As a final point, the speaker believes that an asteroid strike does not have a role for this event because it happened 12 million years before this extinction so that it cannot play a role in this extinction. On the contrary, the writer disagrees with the lecture’s opinion. It is believed that when the asteroid collided with earth, it blocked sunlight for a long time that led to the death of the plants and animals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, thus, in addition, in contrast, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1228.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74131274131 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60061468355 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521235521236 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 365.4 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.6340026577 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.333333333 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5833333333 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.113200165284 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0376268098017 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076470036612 0.0662205650399 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0697199097379 0.162205337803 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610137372867 0.0443174109184 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.