Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss some held beliefs about elephants as fascinating animals. Albeit the author supports three common beliefs about these huge animals, the lecturer challenges all of them and refutes them all, as she believes they are based on misunderstandings.
First of all, the author mentions the belief about elephants' awareness of approaching death, since old elephants break away from the herd and go off to graveyards. The author supports this issue by pointing to different sites containing elephants' bones. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this issue and states we should not assume elephants are aware of their death just due to the fact that they break away from their herd. As a matter of fact, elder elephants' teeth become less sharp and chewing becomes arduous for them, thus they have to go to some areas near water seeking for suitable vegetation.
Second, according to the reading elephants can represent objects via art. they can hold paintbrush in their trunk and draw recognizable objects, such as flowers or animals. However, on the basis of what the lecturer claims, elephants' ears are very sensitive and they can be trained to remember to hold brush with their big ears being caught. In addition, elephants draw some lines with the brush without knowing what it is, certainly, they do not know how to represent a flower or animal.
Finally, the author claims elephants' fear from mice, as in a recent experiment a herd of elephants, facing several mice, left the area to avoid them. Yet, the lecturer declares that this fear is misinterpreted, since elephants demonstrate such a behavior as they are not familiar with mice, and it is a part of unconscious of animals to avoid animals they do not know. On the other side, elephants living in zoo which know that mice can not pose any threat, are not frightened from mice.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 75, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: They
...lephants can represent objects via art. they can hold paintbrush in their trunk and ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, so, thus, in addition, such as, as a matter of fact, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => 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: 1568.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93081761006 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57904583016 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550314465409 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5592540553 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.615384615 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4615384615 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.30769230769 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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