TPO-45 - Integrated Writing Task Any student of paleontology will be struck by the fact that a great many animals of the past were considerably larger than they are today. This holds true for species ranging from dinosaurs to most mammals. Just why they w

The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about the reasons why animals, in the past, were considerable larger than today, and provides extensive information and reasons for support. However, the lecturer casts doubts on the claim of the reading passage, and opposes to each of their arguments.

First of all, the reading passage explains that the size of the animals were related with the amount of oxygen in the past. According to the article, oxygen stimulates the growth of the animals. On the contrary, the lecture refutes this claim and states that in the past the environment was as rich in oxygen as is it today. The lecture states that the high activity of volcanoes at that time, poisoned the atmosphere with toxic gases and pushed away the oxygen. Thus, the reading passage fails to proof that the amount of oxygen was the cause of the large size of the animals.

Secondly, the reading passage sustains that abundant plants and rich nutrients contributed in the lagers size of animals. Again. the lecture challenges this argument by pointing out that, even though the plant life was abundant in the past, it was, however, low in nutrient because of the poisoned air. Consequently, animals size can not be caused by this reason.

Finally, the reading passage explains how some researches believe that the warmer weather at that time could help to increment the size of the animals in the past, because of the less need of energy needed to keep their bodies warmer. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this point by exposing the fact that animals in warm weather need more energy to cool their bodies down and keep them at the same temperature, for instants, in case of mammals.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 130, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1420.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89655172414 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40825966736 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5581521736 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.333333333 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1666666667 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => 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: 0.262247422029 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101262438174 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548215625241 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151358451853 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361903498704 0.0443174109184 82% => OK

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: 11.44 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => 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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