The emperor Claudius of Rome ruled an empire spanning three continents between 41 and 54 CE. His reign was of massive importance to the history of ancient European civilization. In fact, the emperor was among the most innovative, fair, and wise in all Rom

The reading passage tells about the Rome emperor Claudius who ruled between 41 and 54 CE, and elaborates him as a most underrated emporer inspite of his innovative, wise ruling. The lecturer casts doubt on this view by explaining his activities like bad judgemental qualities, love towards violence and corruption. He rises the question of calling him a good emperor.

To begin with, the article portrays that Claudius, among all Roman history, was the most innovative and wise ruler and ancient historians were biased against him because of his physical handicaps and stutter talking. Also points out that he has improved cities by constructing Rome harbor and new aqueducts, and creating new laws to protect slaves' rights. Even though the lecturer acknowledges that Claudius has done these good things, the lecturer calls out Claudius' bad judgemental skills by highlighting the event of Rome plunged into Civil war. And talks about his love towards the violent events such as killing people for entertainment purpose. By these activities, the lecturer casts doubts on the emperor's good qualities.

Second, the reading passage tells us that Claudius faced ancient authors hatred because he was not elected by the Senate and limited its power. He preferred loyal slaves and freed men for government services which created new opportunities to new groups. He has been praised for his actions of letting women and slaves in political work. On the other hand, the lecturer posits that Claudius did not pay attention to the wise advices of the Senate. In addition, he was notorious for his corruption in his ruling period and his wives were murderers.

In summary, the reading passage highlights Claudius' achievements and portrays him as a good emperor whereas the lecturer casts doubt on the authenticity of Claudius's character by saying his negative qualities which caused bad consequences in his ruling period.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 218, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...physical handicaps and stutter talking. Also points out that he has improved cities ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, second, so, then, whereas, in addition, in summary, such as, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1612.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 307.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25081433225 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69589976098 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5667752443 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0435781608 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.142857143 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9285714286 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07142857143 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236689804178 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0807627730122 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076498951059 0.0662205650399 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151756246781 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487806486142 0.0443174109184 110% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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