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Recently, some controversy has been generated about whether or not Greek used a burning mirror to attack Roman which is a parblic shape mirror that used to start a fire. The reading states that Greek did not actually use this device for there possible reasons. However, the speaker argues that what the author mentioned is not convincing.
The first point of dispute is about if Greek people were advanced and knowledgable enough to make a burning mirror. The lecturer explains that ancient Greeks mathmatician could have collected and compined many small pices of copper and made a lage pice of mirror. In addition, the professor adds that they were able to make the right curved of geometic shape. By contrast, the writer is simply content to accept the idea that ancients Greeks could have made buring mirror.
Another controversial issue is about how long buinrng mirror would take to start a fire. According to the professor, ships during ancinet time were not only made of wook. There are other matriales were used to seal the wood parts together such as piches. Piches can catch fire inestingtely. Therefore, starting a fire with burning mirror would only take a few seconds even if the ship was moving. Interestingly, the auhtor does not even consider the other substance that used to construct the ships.
The final point of debate is the question of if buring mirror was a modified device of flaming arrows. The speaker says that Roman people could see the flaming arrows, so they would be perpare to put off the fire immedetly. However, Greek could have used buring mirror to start fire surprisingly, and eventually these fire would spead out throughout the ship. Despite that possible rationale, the author ignores these potential explanations.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 53, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...me controversy has been generated about whether or not Greek used a burning mirror to attack R...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1475.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03412969283 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49910932427 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566552901024 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.6553443137 49.2860985944 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.7647058824 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2352941176 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29411764706 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => 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: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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