The passage primarily affirms that pterosaurs were unable to take power flight providing three reasons. While the lecture, in contrast, supports the power flight of pterosaurs ruling out the doubts casted by the passage.
Firstly, in the passage, it is said that pterosaurs were cold blooded animals. Since, being cold blooded, they had slow metabolism because of which they couldn't produce a lot of energy. Therefore, they couldn't take power flight as they lagged high energy. In the other hand, the lecture suggests that their fossils possessed hair like covering over the body resulting the typical feature of warm blooded animal. This had helped them have high metabolism producing high energy. Thus, they were capable of taking power flight.
Secondly, in the passage, they are explained to be heavy weighed animals because of which they couldn't flap much to stay aloft. However, the lecture ruled out this reason. According to the lecture, they had such anatomical feature that their bones were hollow and light weight despite the body weight. Hence, they were able to fly and have powered flight.
Thirdly, in the passage, it is stated that to run fast and jump high to launch flight, they didn't have powerful muscles in the back legs like it has been in birds. Their legs were small and weak. Nevertheless, the lecture explains there is vast difference between flying of birds and pterosaurs. They used their four limbs to walk as well as to push off the ground and jump high unlike birds using hind limbs. So, the doubt was cleared out proving that pterosaurs could fly high.
Finally, the lecture has made it clear that pterosaurs could have power flight.
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Suggestion: lightweight
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, as to, in contrast, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
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: 1399.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01433691756 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23485253334 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.1588183044 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.7222222222 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5 21.698381199 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.72222222222 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.447921716194 0.272083759551 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153672924049 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0904474617575 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263119748503 0.162205337803 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295957559049 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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