Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has b

The passage and the listening presents a contrasting view for the accuracy of Chevalier de Seingalt's memoir. The author of the passage believes that there are three possible explanations about the memoir being fake. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. He is of the opinion that Chevalier did not lie in his memoir.

First of all, the author suggested that Chevalier was poor even though he showed himself to be rich. The passage also mentioned that even though he gambled and appeared to be wealthy while he was in Switzerland, he borrowed a huge amount of money from the Swiss merchant. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. She says that he owed huge acres of land which he later sold in order to get money. Furthermore, she argues that while he was selling the lands, he had no money in hand hence he borrowed some money for the time being.

Secondly, the passage explains how the conversation between Chevalier and Voltaire might not be accurate. The article notes that the conversations took place a very long time ago, so it is impossible to specify each conversation accurately. The lecturer however rebuts this by asserting that Chevalier wrote his conversations with Voltaire every night later and kept them for many years. He elaborates on this by mentioning that there were witnesses who lived with Chevalier to confirm this fact.

Finally, it is stated in the article that Chevalier's escape was not the way he described it. The author explains that it was impossible to get out of the jail alone, so he took the help of the powerful political people.The lecturer on the other hand posits that there were other prisoners who were related to more powerful political people, but never could get out of the jail. He puts forth the information that witnesses confirmed the fact that the prison cell in which Chevalier was held, the ceiling of that room had to be renovated, thus confirming that he escaped.

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...e help of the powerful political people.The lecturer on the other hand posits that ...
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...the information that witnesses confirmed the fact that the prison cell in which C...
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...on cell in which Chevalier was held, the ceiling of that room had to be renovated...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, while, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 22.412803532 201% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1622.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87087087087 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63565483441 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51951951952 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 419.366225166 120% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.0941861642 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.375 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8125 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.875 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.217706744469 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0801458552189 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0724551045612 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139316989722 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528493632929 0.0443174109184 119% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => 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: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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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