TPO 30
Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss about the usage of ingenious weapon named "burning mirror", which used by roman navy in attacktion the Greek port city. With this in mind, the reading states that there are several points that show the burning mirror is just a myth. The lecturer, on the other hand refutes all the three episodes of arguments mentioned in the passage, believing that all those reasons are impractical and unconvincing.
First, the author explains that making such a advanced weapon need some precise geometric shape, sufficient intensity of sunlight and thechnology for making large copper sheet. But the ancient Greeks were not access to advance technology at that time. Conversely, the professor makes it clear that mathematic calculations show that some pecies of copper and mirror could be used to form a large and wide reflection device.
Second, the reading selection argues that an experiment showed that in order to fier a ship, burning mirror will take a longe time for an unmoving object. since it is impossible that roman ships stayed for long time, burning mirror would have been impractical. Howevere, the speaker points a view that in the mentioned experiment the object was woden. He continues that, roman's ships were not made by wood, they also used a kind of water profe material which could fired on seconds even if the ships were moving.
Finally, the text writer explains that greeks already used flaming arrows which would have been effective at about the same distance so, the burning mirror is does not seem to be an advanced weapon. The professor again contradict this claim and illustrates that since the roman solder were familiar with flaming arrow, they would not be surprised by flaming arrows. so, Greeks may used burning mirror to surprise Romans and win in the attack.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 45, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...t, the author explains that making such a advanced weapon need some precise geome...
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Line 2, column 209, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'accessed'.
Suggestion: accessed
... sheet. But the ancient Greeks were not access to advance technology at that time. Con...
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Line 3, column 155, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Since
...ke a longe time for an unmoving object. since it is impossible that roman ships staye...
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Line 4, column 366, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...uld not be surprised by flaming arrows. so, Greeks may used burning mirror to surp...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1547.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07213114754 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46794009223 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573770491803 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.1537742631 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.0 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4615384615 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.30769230769 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.505910547687 0.272083759551 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170977353699 0.0996497079465 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100181420605 0.0662205650399 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.278693905688 0.162205337803 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0736371454852 0.0443174109184 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.