The author describes that ethanol fuel is not a good replacement for gasoline and provides three reasons to support this claim. On the other hand, the professor explains that ethanol fuel is a good alternative to gasoline and none of the points mentioned in the passage is convincing. He refutes each of the author's viewpoints on the rational grounds.
First of all, the writer states that the increasing use of ethanol fuel would not help to solve the global warming caused by gasoline use. Nevertheless, the speaker points out that utilizing ethanol fuel will not add carbon dioxide and intensify the global warming. In fact, ethanol fuel is made from the plants, such as corn, which the process of growing the plants leads to the decreasing of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. To be more specific, the corn plant absorbs air in order to gain nutrition and in this way remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Second, according to the reading, the production of a large amount of ethanol would dramatically reduce the number of plants available for uses other fuel; besides, a substantial source of the food for animals would disappear. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that producing ethanol fuel has nothing to do with the reducing of the food for animals. As a matter of fact, ethanol fuel is being produced by using cellulose, which is a part of the plant that is not eaten by animals. Therefore, the production of ethanol fuel has no influence on the reduction of the animal's population.
Third, the reading expresses that ethanol fuel will never compete with gasoline on price and if the United States government were to stop helping producers, the price of ethanol would increase greatly. However, the speaker posits that ethanol fuel can be able to compete with gasoline on price. More precisely, it is true that the tax subsidies cause the ethanol fuel price to be cheaper, but this support would not always be needed. As a case in point, if the people start using ethanol fuel, the production of that will be increased which leads to the dropping of the ethanol price; by doing so, the ethanol fuel becomes more available. In other words, if the production of the ethanol fuel becomes three times greater than it is now, the cost of that will drop by around 40 percent.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 574, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...as no influence on the reduction of the animals population. Third, the reading express...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, conversely, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, in fact, such as, as a matter of fact, first of all, in other words, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1919.0 1373.03311258 140% => OK
No of words: 399.0 270.72406181 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80952380952 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52860718775 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46365914787 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 594.0 419.366225166 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5462698654 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.9375 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9375 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.75 7.06452816374 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.654555665583 0.272083759551 241% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.235279278305 0.0996497079465 236% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109320935124 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.395115459525 0.162205337803 244% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101456846345 0.0443174109184 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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