TPO-47 - Integrated Writing Task Pterosaurs were an ancient group of winged reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Many pterosaurs were very large, some as large as a giraffe and with a wingspan of over 12 meters. Paleontologists have long wondered

The main idea of both the reading passage and the lecture is about the ability of pterosaurs to fly. The reading passage provides three reasons that they were not able only to fly. But, the professor rejects whatever mentioned in the passage.
First, the reading passage discusses that pterosaurs were cold-blooded and they were unable to generate a lot of energy to fly. Nevertheless, the professor refutes this point and states that studies have shown that pterosaurs had dense hair-like covering which indicates they were worm-blooded. Thus, they had a high metabolism and would have been able to produce the energy needed to fly.
Second, the reading passage discusses that pterosaurs were so heavy that they would not have been able to flap their wings fast enough to fly. On the other hand, the professor rejects this point and states that pterosaurs were not heavy because they had hollow bone which cause them to be able to fly.
Finally, the reading passage discusses that pterosaurs were not able to fly because of their back leg muscles were too small and weak. But, the professor is against this point and states that pterosaurs were used four legs to jumping and push the ground to lift themselves into the air. The professor adds that pterosaurs were alike modern fly animals.
All in all, the reading passage provides three reasons that pterosaurs were able only to glide. On the other hand, the professor thinks that none of these is reasonable.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 170, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hinks that none of these is reasonable.
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, nevertheless, second, so, thus, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1221.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94331983806 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37707336832 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 145.348785872 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.437246963563 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 371.7 419.366225166 89% => 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
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: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4419268313 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.9230769231 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.69230769231 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397245608866 0.272083759551 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169973729481 0.0996497079465 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104192110334 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249218027372 0.162205337803 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100979353711 0.0443174109184 228% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.82 8.42419426049 81% => OK
difficult_words: 35.0 63.6247240618 55% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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