The author in the passage states that populations of yellow cedar has been continuously declining in the Northwestern North America. Three prominent factors for population decline stated in the passage are insect parasites, brown bears and climate change. The speaker disagrees that these factors were responsible for decline and elaborates why they might not be responsible for it.
While the passage states yellow cedar decline may be caused by insect parasites, specifically the beetles, the speaker says that healthy cedars are much more resistant to toxic chemicals ingested by beetles and so they are unlikely to suffer from beetles. In the case of unhealthy cedars, the speaker says that beetles might not be the actual reason for death and the cedars might already have been damaged due to other reasons.
On the damage caused by bear claws, the speaker refutes by stating that there are no bears present on the island but still the population of trees is declining. Although, the speaker says some trees may have been damaged by bears on the mainland. So, overall, the bears are not the actual factor responsible for declining population.
Finally, the speaker disregards the climate factor by saying that cedars on high elevation where there is colder climate are not having much effect as the cedars in warm climate have been dying more frequently. He also says that climate might have made cedar roots more sensible but this may not have been killing them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 59, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ed by bear claws, the speaker refutes by stating that there are no bears present ...
^^
Line 5, column 163, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...l the population of trees is declining. Although, the speaker says some trees may have ...
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Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...is declining. Although, the speaker says some trees may have been damaged by bear...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, may, so, still, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1240.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12396694215 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44711846286 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6658494559 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.0 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.243677436946 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115123285685 0.0996497079465 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650193565209 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153266692783 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383853299766 0.0443174109184 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.7273730684 144% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.