The passage and the lecture offers opposing views about the validity of the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austin. While the text lists the arguments to support the claim, the professor contradicts each of those arguments by providing specific reasons.
First and foremost, according to the text the family of Jane Austen has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austin. However, the professor notes that when the portrait was authorized as an illustration she was already dead. So, the extended family members who endorsed the claim had not even seen her.
Secondly, the text asserts that the features of the teenage girl in the painting resembles Austen's face as depicted in Cassandra's sketch. On the other hand, the professor argues that the portrait might be of one of Jane's cousins. A lot of Austen's cousins were teenager at the time she was one, so this can also explain the resemblance. Moreover, he says that experts believe that the girl in the portrait is Marien who was one of the Jane's cousins.
Finally, the passage posits that even though the painting is unsigned and undated the style resembles as that of Ozias who was active at the same time Jane was a teenager. Whereas, the professor points out that the stamp at the back of the canvas indicates that it was sold by William leg who was not involved in selling the canvases at the time Jane was a teenager rather he was active when she might be twenty seven years old. Hence, this is enough evidence to prove that the canvas was used when she was older.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: “Whereas” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e at the same time Jane was a teenager. Whereas, the professor points out that the stam...
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Line 7, column 357, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ling the canvases at the time Jane was a teenager rather he was active when she m...
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Line 7, column 407, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-seven
... rather he was active when she might be twenty seven years old. Hence, this is enough eviden...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, whereas, while, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1288.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66666666667 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32722668362 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489130434783 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 396.0 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4102329473 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.333333333 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.91666666667 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.41635710378 0.272083759551 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159552074249 0.0996497079465 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.083608636366 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252184291943 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.124915189221 0.0443174109184 282% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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