This material addresses the questions of whether the zebra mussel's invasion to North America might be stopped, and whether this fish would dominate in their new habitat.
This material addresses the questions of whether the zebra mussel's invasion to North America might be stopped, and whether this fish would dominate in their new habitat. The reading passage suggests three arguments in support of the view that the mentioned fish population will increase and that this fact might cause other fish population to decline. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this information by stating that there are efficient ways of control and that zebra mussel's penetration to North America might not inevitably cause reduction of fish population out there.
To begin with, the reading passage highlights that zebra mussel spread is unavoidable as it is brought by the ships traveling from Eastern Europe to Europa and after that to North America. Meanwhile, the professor casts doubt on this and argues that this can be controlled, if the ships refill the ballast water by ocean water, which will kill the fish.
Additionally, the article posits that once in the new habitat, the zebra mussel would dominate there. However, the professor advocates a different approach and provides the following details. Namely, he mentions that predators might appear in the area and prevent possible domination.
Finally, the author invites attention to the fact that this fish will be a cause for a decline in the population of fish in new habitats, as zebra mussels eat plankton - the food of other fishes. This goes counter with the information in the listening passage, according to which, only some kinds of fish might decrease in number, while some other types, which does not eat the same food as zebra mussels, would increase in number.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, so, while, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1388.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12177121771 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51212457816 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531365313653 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 421.2 419.366225166 100% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 50.7598266348 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.8 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06452816374 92% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.513972436141 0.272083759551 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.207521632882 0.0996497079465 208% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.260504674001 0.0662205650399 393% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276205291387 0.162205337803 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.180649094751 0.0443174109184 408% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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