The reading passage and the lecture are both about the surprising behaviors of elephants. The Author of the reading mentions three different behaviors of elephants. The lecturer challenges each of the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that the mentioned facts are not true.
To begin with, the author claims that elephants can sense their death. In the article, it is said that old elephants, when sense their death, get separated with their herd and leave to another site called elephant graveyard. This specific point is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that old elephants do not leave their herd because they have sensed their death but they leave the herd to look for soft food which they can chew easily. Additionally, she says that they generally find softer food nearby water, so most of the bones are found there.
Secondly, the author says that elephants have artistic abilities. The article mentions that elephants can paint on the canvas using paintbrush holding it in their trunk. The lecturer rebuts the point by claiming that elphants cannot represent things through art, rather they are trained to hold paintbrush and paint on canvas. Additionally, she states that elephants' ears are sensitive and whenever the trainer touches their ears, they draw some already taught pattern.
Finally, the author posits that the elephants, despite have a large body, have a fear of mice. The article says that the same point has been proved in recent scientific experiments. IN contrast, the lecturer poistion is that they do not fear from mice, they are just not familier with mice. She elaborates on this by bringing up the points that the elephants in zoo do not fear from mice beacuse they are know and recognize mice.
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- 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 mo 85
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 166, 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.
...three different behaviors of elephants. The lecturer challenges each of the claims ...
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Line 4, column 405, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'known'.
Suggestion: known
... do not fear from mice beacuse they are know and recognize mice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, look, 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: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1455.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96587030717 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40244917684 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522184300341 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 427.5 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => 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: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.0589674692 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5882352941 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2352941176 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23529411765 7.06452816374 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145714125016 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525688053735 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0466283604882 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0881594148752 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266677338263 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.25 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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