Anting in birds and some possible benefits of it.
The lecturer challenges the topic proposed in the reading that there are several theories about the possible benefit that birds get from anting. And he thinks that none of these theories are convincing.
First, the passage indicates that anting behaviour would help birds to soothe the skin irritation caused by feather loss and replacement. However, the professor points out that birds engage in anting may due to other different reasons. Because ants are active in summer, birds can easily find them than other times. Thus, birds' changes of feather in summer might just a coincidence.
Second, the article supposes another theory that the formic acid helps the birds protect themselves from external parasites. but the lecturer supports that if this theory is substantiated, the birds must have fewer parasites than other birds without anting. On the contrary, we did not find that the birds with anting behaviour have significantly fewer parasites than birds without anting.
Third, the essay suggests another theory that releasing of formic acid makes it possible for hte birds to feed on the ants. Nevertheless, the professor argues that birds would preserve ants for eating later if they usually preserve pieces of cigarrete or soop. but they do not eat them later in fact, so anting behaviour is not related to eating.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 126, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...ect themselves from external parasites. but the lecturer supports that if this theo...
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Line 7, column 262, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...y preserve pieces of cigarrete or soop. but they do not eat them later in fact, so ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third, thus, in fact, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => 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: 1117.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 215.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19534883721 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82921379641 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46834365302 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586046511628 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 333.0 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.3601913027 49.2860985944 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.0833333333 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9166666667 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.299684812623 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109432822719 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0512496121817 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174255734741 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.019042463651 0.0443174109184 43% => 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: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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