Whether anting behavior is beneficial for birds.
The listening lecture totally opposes to the reading passage in whether anting behavior is beneficial for birds. To begin with, the reading says that anting may act as a kind of skin lotion help to soothe the skin irritation when they are changing feather. However, the listening implies that it is true that anting and changing feather happen at the same time, but this can be just a coincidence. Researchers find out that there are more ants in the summer time, so the reason of anting might because birds can simply find out more ants during that time.
In addition, the reading suggests that anting will produce a chemical call formic acid to help birds protect themselves from external parasites. Whereas, the listening do not agree with this explanation. If this hypothesis is true, birds that engage in anting behavior would contain fewer parasites than birds that did not attend. However, the evidence totally contradict to it. Birds engage in anting did not contain fewer parasites. Therefore, this explanation is incorrect.
Lastly, the reading indicates that anting behavior is just a way for birds to make sure ants taste good. Nevertheless, the listening is not convinced by this idea. Birds also rub on some other objects such as soap, but they did not eat these objects. As a result, it is unlikely that birds rub on ants is because they want to make sure ants tastes good.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 452, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[2]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...ind out that there are more ants in the summer time, so the reason of anting might because ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 146, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ect themselves from external parasites. Whereas, the listening do not agree with this e...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, whereas, in addition, kind of, such as, as a result, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1158.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 237.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88607594937 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45450694012 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544303797468 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1525665747 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.7142857143 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9285714286 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2857142857 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303611600123 0.272083759551 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10246687952 0.0996497079465 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.149962894695 0.0662205650399 226% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197567797788 0.162205337803 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0909986014189 0.0443174109184 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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