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Both the reading and lecture are about Sinosaurpteryx's fossil which was a type of dinosaur and found in volcanic ash in 1996. Several line patternts on its skin have caused researchers to think that Sinosaurpteryx had feather. The reading provides three reasons that these lines are not related to the feathers and then supports them. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article and finds all arguments unconvincing.
First of all, the author of reading declares that since this fossil has been discovered among volcanic ashes, it may have decomposed into fibers and the mentioned lines appeared after Sinosaurpteryx's death. This point is challenged by the lecturer. she points out that scholars could find other animals' fossil in this place and fortunately their fossil had preserved in the fire very well and they showed all of details without finding any fibers, thus Sinosaurpteryx's lines cannot be related to fibers.
Secondly, the article contends that most of dinosaurs' body was including an organ which was called frill; hence, the aforementioned lines could have been the remains of frill and not feathers; in contrast, the professor expresses that there is a great chemical difference between frill and feather. As a matter a fact, the feathers usually have Chariton- a chemical substance-; however, the frills do not have such a substance. Analyzing Sinosaurpteryx's fossil determined that fossil had Chariton which is associated with feathers.
Finally, the reading passage states that feathers play a role in keeping warm or flying; however, surveying fossil shown that the lines were located in Sinosaurpteryx's backbone and tail; therefore, it could be useless. This argument is rebutted by the lecturer and she poses that occasionally, feathers can have another function such as attracting mate. She elaborates on this by mentioning that there is a bird which is called Pickup. This bird has colorful feather and it uses them for appealing mate and this behavior is called displace function. In an experiment, the researchers discovered that Sinosaurpteryx's fossil had colors such as white or orange; so it may have applied its feathers for attracting its mate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 127, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun line seems to be countable; consider using: 'Several lines'.
Suggestion: Several lines
...saur and found in volcanic ash in 1996. Several line patternts on its skin have caused resea...
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Line 2, column 219, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...rchers to think that Sinosaurpteryx had feather. The reading provides three reasons tha...
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Line 2, column 219, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'feathered'.
Suggestion: feathered
...rchers to think that Sinosaurpteryx had feather. The reading provides three reasons tha...
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Line 4, column 250, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...is point is challenged by the lecturer. she points out that scholars could find oth...
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Line 4, column 296, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...ints out that scholars could find other animals fossil in this place and fortunately th...
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Line 6, column 37, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the dinosaurs') or simply say ''most dinosaurs''.
Suggestion: most of the dinosaurs; most dinosaurs
... Secondly, the article contends that most of dinosaurs body was including an organ which was c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 350.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29714285714 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89919904492 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551428571429 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.9684894312 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.73333333333 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333838136822 0.272083759551 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109684250385 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567921359614 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208331231315 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255599524792 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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