In the past, eating avocados was not considered to be necessarily beneficial. Being unaware of their beneficial properties, people used them mostly as avocado oil for different purposes. It wasn't until recently that the advantages of consuming avocados were noticed.
First of all, avocados have vital nutrients that help in lowering blood pressure. They contain as many as 20 kinds of vitamins and minerals. To be specific, avocados are rich in phytonutrients and folic acid. These nutrients are known to be beneficial especially in lowering blood pressure.
Secondly, avocados are good for a healthy pregnancy. As mentioned above, they are known to be rich in folic acid. Folic acid does not just lower blood pressure but also reduces the risk of miscarriage and neural tube defects during pregnancy.
Lastly, eating avocados can also save a lot of money. Some vegetarians tend to eat avocados because they taste similar to meat products and seafood. In this sense, people can save money by eating the meat-flavored fruit since meat is more expensive than vegetables in general.
The reading and the lecture both are about whether avocados are beneficial or not. The author of the reading provides three plausible benefits of avocados. The lecturer challenges all the claims made by the author and illustrates them hereunder. Firstly, the writer suggests that avocados have vital nutrients and will help in lowering hypertension because they contain phytonutrients and folic acid. However, the professor counteracts this point and says that avocados are loaded with fats. Even though the avocado fats are healthier, the professor mentions fats are fats whether they are good or bad. He also adds the point that a single avocado has 300 calories. Moreover, they cause obesity in individuals which in turn leads to an increase in hypertension. Secondly, the article posits that avocados are good for pregnant women as they are rich in folic acid, it will eliminate the risk of miscarriage and neural tube defects of baby. On the other hand, the academician argues that pregnant women should avoid eating avocados because they decrease not only the milk production of pregnant women but also damage the mammary glands. Additionally, the baby's stomach is not accustomed to digesting the avocados. Finally, the reading depicts that eating avocados can save money because they taste similar to meat. Furthermore, the meat is more expensive to buy so eating meat-flavored fruit will satisfy vegan people. On the contrary, the tutor mentions that one pound of apples and single avocado costs the same when it comes to the price. Even more, growing of avocados are very costly as it consumes many gallons of water. On top of it, he says that growing avocados is not only a waste of money but also a waste of natural resources.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 157, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s three plausible benefits of avocados. The lecturer challenges all the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, moreover, second, secondly, so, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1451.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05574912892 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6086882535 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4723782471 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.6875 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.197234591292 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639629439449 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0445957592158 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197234591292 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => 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: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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