Both the passage and the lecture discuss the invasion of the zebra mussel, which is a shellfish native of Europe and has a long history of invading and spreading into other waters. The passage claims that the invasion has reached to America and there is little anyone can do to stop it. However, the lecturer argues that the animal is neither unstoppable nor purely harmful.
First, the passage presents the method that this shellfish use to spread: it lives on the bottom of a ship or on its ballast- water inside the ship use to have a proper balance- and it has reached America by the same means. Then concludes that we can forecast the fish taking over the nation. Nonetheless, The lecturer points out that there are methods that we can use to prevent this. He points out that we can simply ask for the ship to empty their ballast in the sea, consequently, the mussel would die because of salinity.
Second, the text posits that the mussels easily displace fish out of their environment and become dominant, because they do not have any predators. The lecturer rebuts this argument by pointing out that some birds can accommodate to eating mussel shellfish. Furthermore, he highlights that these birds can easily control the fish's populations.
Finally, the author argues that the mussels can be harmful to other fish because they eat plankton, which is the main source of much other freshwater fish. The lecturer explains that while the zebra mussels can harm some species they can benefit others, like the fish that feed near the shore.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 60, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...presents the method that this shellfish use to spread: it lives on the bottom of a ...
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Line 3, column 149, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...r on its ballast- water inside the ship use to have a proper balance- and it has re...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, nonetheless, second, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1286.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83458646617 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38590041192 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545112781955 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 392.4 419.366225166 94% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1611965646 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.166666667 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1666666667 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.351050903763 0.272083759551 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121647290254 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699016204788 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206920786642 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251247632553 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.