The article and the lecture both discuss about the "Burning Mirror" that was used by the Roman navy to attack the Greek port city of Syracuse. The reading claims that it is impossible to attack the ship by using burning mirror and it is a myth to be believed. The lecture challenges the claim that is made by the author for the following reasons.
To begin with, the author argues that the roman's were not advanced in technology and also the burning mirror was only several meters wide, which makes it impossible to make a fire using sun's radiation. This specific argument is challenged by the lecture that small mirror pieces individually arranged into parabolic shape would definitely react for sun's radiation.
Secondly, the reading posits that it would take long time to burn a moving ship with the burning mirror. Moreover, the author says, to burn a 30 meter distance took 10 minutes, which turn to be the question to light fire on a ship. The lecture, however, rebuts this by mentioning that it is difficult to light fire on wood but not for other materially. Additionally, she mentioned that the ship was made up of a material called "PITCH". Pitch catches fir very quickly and spreads in seconds through out the ship.
Finally, the reading claims that the roman navy has their flaming arrows than the burning mirror. In contrast, the lecture's opinion is that flaming arrows were the roman's technique in their war fighting. She elaborates this by bringing up the point that the enemy never thought of burning mirror which already light up their ship on fire.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 242, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ck the ship by using burning mirror and its a myth to be believed. The lecture chal...
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Line 1, column 269, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...g mirror and its a myth to be believed. The lecture challenges the claim that is ma...
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Line 3, column 139, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing mirror was only several meters wide, which makes it impossible to make a fire...
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Line 5, column 35, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'it'?
Suggestion: the; it
.... Secondly, the reading posits that the it would take long time to burn a moving s...
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Line 5, column 258, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ht fire on a ship. The lecture, however, rebuts this by mentioning that it is dif...
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Line 5, column 507, Rule ID: THROUGH_OUT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'throughout'?
Suggestion: throughout
...fir very quickly and spreads in seconds through out the ship. Finally, the reading claim...
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Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lectures'' or 'lecture's'?
Suggestion: lectures'; lecture's
...an the burning mirror. In contrast, the lectures opinion is that flaming arrows were the...
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Line 7, column 165, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'romans'' or 'roman's'?
Suggestion: romans'; roman's
...opinion is that flaming arrows were the romans technique in their war fighting. She el...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1327.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89667896679 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59583539651 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531365313653 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.4798358461 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.076923077 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8461538462 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.190269709193 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0729392929599 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0922408467211 0.0662205650399 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122541093671 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0738666385779 0.0443174109184 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.