The passage and the lecturer talks about a pre-historic mammal "R. robustus", whose fossil was recently discovered by archaeologists. The remains of a psittacosaur dinosaur was found in the mammal's stomach which led to a discussion on whether the R.robustus was an active hunter or not.
Firstly, the lecturer explains that the size of the mammal was almost twice the size of dinosaur remains found in the stomach. This information can be used to infer that even though the R.Robustus was small in size, it was large enough to hunt baby psittacosaurs or dinosaurs of similar size. While doing so, the lecturer contradicts the opinion expressed by the author of the passage which highlights this difference in size of the R.Robustus and a full-grown psittacosaur and concludes that R.robustus would possibly not have been able to hunt the dinosaur.
Secondly, the lecturer cites the example of the Tasmanian devil, a small mammal with short legs positioned slightly towards the side of the body. She explains how this animal is an active and a very successful hunter that can reach speeds upto 15 km/h. Therefore, R.robustus, a mammal with similar features could very well be an active hunter as well, an opinion which is contradicted in the passage.
Finally, while explaining the method in which R.robustus consumed its food, the lecturer points out that the back teeth of this mammal were not used for chewing and it most likely swallowed its food whole. This, according to the lecturer's opinion, is the reason why the bones found in the stomach did not have any bite marks. On the other hand, the author of the passage feels that R.robustus, swallowed an egg of the dinosaur with a baby dinosaur inside the shell and therefore, the bite marks were not seen on the bones.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 73, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Robustus&apos
...ks about a pre-historic mammal 'R. robustus', whose fossil was recently discovered ...
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Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Robustus
...be used to infer that even though the R.Robustus was small in size, it was large enough ...
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Line 3, column 202, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: small
...fer that even though the R.Robustus was small in size, it was large enough to hunt baby psitt...
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Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Robustus
...lights this difference in size of the R.Robustus and a full-grown psittacosaur and concl...
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Line 7, column 230, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
... its food whole. This, according to the lecturers opinion, is the reason why the bones fo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97666666667 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74578262472 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8012675398 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.416666667 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249998604178 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106124628018 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0989026554901 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168956417144 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0524070246447 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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