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 passage provides some reasons behind the large animal bodies than today. However, the lecturer refutes on these reasons and contradicts it.

Firstly, the passage talks about the amount of oxygen. The passage claims that the large size body of animals must be due to the abundant amount of oxygen available. On the other hand, the lecturer opines that in the past, there were large amount of volcanic activities. Number of poisonous gases were present. So the amount of oxygen was less compare to today.

Secondly, the passage decribes importance of nutrients. The passage states that the abundant amount of plant life must had provided nutrients to the animals which were vital for the animals to fully grow. But, the lecturer says that there was the abundant amount of plant life but less nutrients were present. Researchers prove this result by examine the fossils.

Finally, the passage talks about a warm weather. According to the passage, the early earth's warn climate tended to simulate the growth because they had to spent less amount of enery to keep body temparature cold. The lecturer refuses it and argues that having a large body and warm temparature was a disadvantage. They had to spend a lot amount of energy to keep their body cold.

To conclude, the lecturer contradicts every reasons by providing different evidences and based on this it is possible that reasons of having large animal bodies are wrong.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t of oxygen was less compare to today. Secondly, the passage decribes importanc...
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Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun nutrients is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...s the abundant amount of plant life but less nutrients were present. Researchers pro...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...ve this result by examine the fossils. Finally, the passage talks about a warm ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1200.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 238.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04201680672 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40783798861 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.495798319328 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3262552743 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.0 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.875 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.125 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.247334013545 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0842007113513 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0717758772292 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140598781912 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316436707735 0.0443174109184 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.0289183223 80% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.36 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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