Scientists found a fossil skeleton of a dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx which preserved in volcnic ashes in China. The fossil contains lines which interpret this dinosaur had feathers. The reading passage thinks that evidances aren't convincing but the lecturer thinks evidances are strong.
The reading passage thinks that lines in fossils is because of decomposition and it was formed after the animal's death. The skin may have decomposed into fibers. But the lecturer thinks that fossils were beautifuly preserved and there aren't any signs of decomposition in fossils site.
The reading passage mentions that fossils may belong to frills. Because, many dinosaurs had frills and the lines sorrounding the skeleton are likely to be remain of frills. But the lecturer thinks that there are chemical differences between frills and feathers. There is a special protoein in feather's structure that doesn't exist in frills.
Finally, the reading passage thinks that animals use feathers for fly or regulate their body temperature. The reading passage thinks that the structure in fossils seems useless for this dinosaur. But the lecturer thinks that birds has feather in their tails and it is also colorful. Birds use this ability for display. Hence, this feather may had display function for this dinosaur.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...e reading passage thinks that evidances arent convincing but the lecturer thinks evid...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... lecturer thinks evidances are strong. The reading passage thinks that lines in...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ecturer thinks evidances are strong. The reading passage thinks that lines in fo...
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Line 2, column 108, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...composition and it was formed after the animals death. The skin may have decomposed int...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... it was formed after the animals death. The skin may have decomposed into fibers. B...
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Suggestion: aren't
...ils were beautifuly preserved and there arent any signs of decomposition in fossils s...
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...igns of decomposition in fossils site. The reading passage mentions that fossil...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...ial protoein in feathers structure that doesnt exist in frills. Finally, the readin...
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...structure that doesnt exist in frills. Finally, the reading passage thinks that...
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Line 4, column 237, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
... But the lecturer thinks that birds has feather in their tails and it is also colorful....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, if, may, so, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1101.0 1373.03311258 80% => OK
No of words: 204.0 270.72406181 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39705882353 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.77926670891 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59659134646 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 145.348785872 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490196078431 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 328.5 419.366225166 78% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.3129879211 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 73.4 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.6 21.698381199 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.06666666667 7.06452816374 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.368919211622 0.272083759551 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135533884388 0.0996497079465 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0813433733448 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238489299513 0.162205337803 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311784400746 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.45 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 63.6247240618 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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