Both the reading and the lecture discuss whether the ancient Pterosaurs were capable of powered flight, which is the action of flying by relying purely on the animal’s wings, rather than gliding. The author believes that because of many physical impediments, they were not able to sustain powered-fly. However, the professor brings into questions the claims made in the article. She considers that they could produce enough energy to fly only with their wings.
First, The author establishes the because of their kinship with cold-blooded reptiles, Pterosaurs could not produce enough energy to fly on their own. It is mentioned that Flying is an action that requires a lot of energy, so only warm-blooded animals can do it. Nevertheless, the professor argues that Pterosaurs had fur, a characteristic proper of warm-blooded animals. She suggests that if this was the case, they could fly without a doubt.
Second, the passage states that these animals were too big to be able to fly on their own. The article notes that there exists a natural weigh limit for animals in order to be capable of flight. Meanwhile, the professor rebuts this argument. She states that Pterosaurs were unusually light for their size. She highlights that their bones were hollow and thus, much lighter than normal bones.
Finally, the author contends that Pterosaurs were not able to take off in the first place, therefore, they were not able to perform flight. It is explained these creatures had back legs too weak for launching them into the air. On the other hand, the speaker posits that Pterosaurs used all-four legs to walk . She puts forth the idea that by using all their limbs to propel themselves, they were more than able to start flying.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 309, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...at Pterosaurs used all-four legs to walk . She puts forth the idea that by using a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, thus, while, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => 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: 1455.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03460207612 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55472563454 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550173010381 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.4786353178 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5882352941 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11764705882 7.06452816374 101% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.418913639469 0.272083759551 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125954826442 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694409516228 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255396638016 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0337798659127 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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