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 become a | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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 become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.
Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.
Critics have also questioned the memoir’s account of the Chevalier’s escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevalier’s jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.

Both the reading and lecture discuss the accuracy of the long memoir which had been written by Chevalier de Seingalt. The former argues that the memoir written by Chevalier de Seingalt was bogus, which was made just to make more enthusiastic, and provides three reasons to support, but latter challenges each of these points.

First of all, the author of the passage asserts that in Chevalier de Seingalt memoir, he renowned himself as affulent man, but asked money from Swiss businessman as liabilities.
However, the professor in the lecture counters that this reason does not hold true because Swiss is well-known for parties and gambling, and he might sell his property for getting money. Until his long-term assets converted into cash, he might borrowed money from the merchant.

Secondly, according to the passage, expert opined that it is impossible to memorize lengthy conversations after many years, which was mention in the memoir between Voltaire and Chevalier. In contrast, the lecture strongly objects this idea. She supports her argument by presenting example of notes written by the Chevalier. He used to wrote certain notes every times when he met with the great people, which made him memorize things after decades.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, secondly, so, thus, well, in contrast, first of all

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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1041.0 1373.03311258 76% => OK
No of words: 199.0 270.72406181 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23115577889 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75589349951 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53368010219 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.64824120603 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 306.9 419.366225166 73% => 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: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0137683577 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.666666667 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1111111111 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.88888888889 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232117005723 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841356103658 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552208266768 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127851690524 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038567658967 0.0443174109184 87% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, secondly, so, thus, well, in contrast, first of all

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