The reading and the lecture are both about burning mirror, which was made by Greek. The author of the reading implies that there are some reasons, which suspect that mirror are made by Greeks. The speaker challenges the statements made by the author. She indicates that the reason mentioned in the reading are not convincible.
First of all, the author of the reading asserts that the technology of the Greeks was not improved to make such device. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by asserting that Greeks could made the burning mirror by single sheet of copper. She explains that due to an experiment, Greeks could make large mirror by dozens of polished flat shape, and also they knew that collect the small parabolic shapes together.
Secondly, the writer of the passage declares that it would take a long time to set the ships on fire by burning mirror, he added that it is impossible that Roman ships stay unmoving until that time. This argument challenged by the speaker. She is of the opinion that Greeks used some other material instead of wood, in order to produce fire quickly. She established an experiment that showed that Greeks used water prove and picked swiftly, thereby, the fire produced within a second and spreaded.
Finally, it is mentioned in the reading that Greeks do not need of improvement the burning mirror, since they have flaming arrows. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that Roman soldiers were familiar with the flaming arrows, but they did not know about burning mirror. She puts forth the idea that the mirror was seems like a bright thing far away, but near to the ships produced fire, and it was astonishing for Romans.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 194, 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.
...suspect that mirror are made by Greeks. The speaker challenges the statements made ...
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Line 2, column 186, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'make'
Suggestion: make
...uts this by asserting that Greeks could made the burning mirror by single sheet of c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, first of all, on the other hand
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 : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1384.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83916083916 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29151993701 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527972027972 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 416.7 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3749059357 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8571428571 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4285714286 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64285714286 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.401677490364 0.272083759551 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126891437102 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0841598032025 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233271359116 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690180465071 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => 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: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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