Humans have long been fascinated by elephants, the largest land animal in the modern world. Social animals that live in herds, elephants are native to both Africa and Asia. Their large ears, long trunk, and long life span have made elephants one of the most captivating creatures on Earth. Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors.
Elephants Are Aware of Approaching Death
One of the popular beliefs is that when elephants become old and weak, they know that they are nearing the end of their lives. They demonstrate this by breaking away from their herds and going off alone to certain locations often found near bodies of water—so called “elephant graveyards”—to die alone. The idea that old elephants seem aware that they will die soon is supported by the discovery of many sites containing bones exclusively of elderly elephants.
Representing Objects through Art
Additionally, elephants seem to have artistic ability. Elephants can be taught to hold a paintbrush in their trunk and use it to paint on a canvas. Some elephants have been known to paint drawings that represent recognizable things: flowers, other elephants, even themselves. This talent makes elephants the only animal other than humans to produce art representing the world around them.
Fear of Mice
Finally, it has long been believed that elephants have a fear of mice. In 77 C.E., the Roman philosopher and scientist Pliny the Elder wrote that elephants are more afraid of mice, small mammals that can do elephants no harm, than of the much more dangerous animals with which elephants normally share an environment, such as lions or tigers. In a recent scientific experiment in which a herd of elephants was confronted with several mice, the elephants backed away from the mice and left the area to avoid them.
The author in the passage talks about the large animal elephant, he describes the reasons why the elephant fascinate humans. On the contrary, the professor cast doubt on the assumptions that reading passage is illustrated. She support her ideas by expressing other argument on the basis of reading.
First of all, the writer states that elephant have the ability to know about their death previously. However, the lecturer claims that going away from the herd does not mean they are aware of their death; she put forward her idea by saying that having age the teeth of elephant become down and they need to search some softer vegetation. That’s why they go away to the waterly area where soft vegetable grows and dies.
Second, the passage indicates the artistic ability of the elephant. But the professor points that a trainer deliberately train the elephant to do this kind of work by controlling or stroking their ear since elephant ear is so sensitive.
Third, The writer also provides an example, according to which the elephant fear mice. On the other hand, the speaker states this idea is misinterpreted; she also strengthens the argument by adding that elephant reacts to mice if they are unfamiliar to mice, but in the zoo where the elephant are familier to mice and realize that it was not harmful for them they don’t react to mice.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, kind of, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1134.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93043478261 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55043641323 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.591304347826 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.2185960525 49.2860985944 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.4 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134309243843 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509108711865 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498122555757 0.0662205650399 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0783284808349 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0156314954313 0.0443174109184 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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