The article discusses an interesting topic about the causes of the declining population of the yellow cedar, in the northwestern of North America, and provides three main reasons for support. However, the lecture casts doubts on the claims made by the article. He thinks the causes of this declining are unknown and rebuttes each of the reasons of the reading passage.
First, the reading passage establishes that the decreasing of the trees may be provoked by the cedar bark beetle, a parasite insect that attack the tree. The lecture challenges this claim by explaining that the yellow cedar is one of the most beetle resistant species. The leaves of the yellow cedar are covered by a poison that combat the beetle. Thus, the trees may be dying for another reasons other than the beetles, and the insects are taking advantadge of it.
Secondly, the reading passage suggests that other reason for the disappearing of the yellow cedar could be the brown bears feeding from the sweet tree bark. Questioning this point, the lecture sustains that many areas with no bear population, like the islands, the tree are declining at the same rate as in areas with bear population concluding that this animal should not be cause to blame.
Finally, the reading passage arguments that the climate change is a good reason for the disappearing of the yellow cedar. This hypothesis is rebutted again by the lecture who sustains that the tree population on the south are declining faster than the north one; therefore, frozen root growing too soon in a late winter is not the real cause of the tree extinction.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 374, Rule ID: BE_CAUSE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'because'?
Suggestion: because
... concluding that this animal should not be cause to blame. Finally, the reading passa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1334.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92250922509 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48462545517 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516605166052 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 404.1 419.366225166 96% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 55.5907418417 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.272727273 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6363636364 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.422434691096 0.272083759551 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155842741651 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692232917127 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260813713463 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0698354383649 0.0443174109184 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => 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: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => 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: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 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.