TPO30
Reading specifies that there are three reasons to suspect story of the burning mirror witch greeks were used to deffend their city. However, the professor explains that it is not impossible and inconvincing and refutes each of author's reasons.
First, the reading states that the ancient greek were not enough developed in technology to make a divice which could focus sunlight on ship to initiate fire. Nevertheles, the lecturer contradict the idea reasoning that the ancient greek have the material and could use many pieces to form a wide burning mirror.
Second, based on the reading, the burning mirror would have taken a long time to set ships on fire and also the ships were moving. In contrast, the experiment that explain in the reading was done on a wood and it last 10 minute for wood to catch a fire but we know that there was other materials on roman ships like pitch which used to water proof their ships and experiment on the pitch shows that this substance get fire in a few seconds and after that the fire spread on the ships and the facts that ships were moving, can not affect it.
Third, according to the reading, the ancient greek did not need an improvement on weapon since they had flaming arrows. On the contrary, Greeks need to use a new way instead of flaming arrows because roman were familiar with this method. Furthermore, they tried to find much more effective and surprising to start fire on the roman's ships.
Therefore, the specific points mentioned in the reading make sense.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 213, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'lasts'?
Suggestion: lasts
...n the reading was done on a wood and it last 10 minute for wood to catch a fire but ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 336, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: waterproof
...on roman ships like pitch which used to water proof their ships and experiment on the pitch...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, in contrast, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1250.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73484848485 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32814998854 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560606060606 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 376.2 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 89.8745792758 49.2860985944 182% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.0 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.419911216326 0.272083759551 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150291049449 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102343618811 0.0662205650399 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183437485009 0.162205337803 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0980318716892 0.0443174109184 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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