the burning mirror

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the burning mirror

The material discusses that the ancient Greeks used a specific weapon called burning mirror to fight aganist the Romans. While the reading looks at the topic from one prespective, the listening challenges certain points outlined in the reading passage.

First, the author claims that the ancient Greeks were not technologically advanced to create this weapon. On the other hand, the professor opposes this and states that the Greeks did not use single sheet od copper to manufacture an individual precise mirror,but they used assemble many small mirrors to from perebolic shap mirror.

Second, the reading posites that this weapon was ineffective becasue it took long time to fire a ship. On the contrary, the listening contradicts this and says that if the ship just made of wood, it could take ten minute to fire it; however, the ship usually made of many pices of wood that sealed together with a particular waterproof material called peatch. The professor adds that this material could catch fire in second, then the fire could spread even the ship was moving.

Third, the author states that the Greeks already had falming arrows, so it was not a creative weapon. Conversely, the lecturer challenges this and states that both Greeks and Romans were familiar with flaming arrows and they could watch it, nevertheless, they could expect that a mirror could be a weapon it was just a mirror. The professor adds that the fire suddenly came from the mirror and surprise the enemies.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 95, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...specific weapon called burning mirror to fight aganist the Romans. While the read...
^^
Line 3, column 258, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , but
...manufacture an individual precise mirror,but they used assemble many small mirrors t...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, then, third, while, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1241.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02429149798 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4486330672 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534412955466 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 419.366225166 88% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0745291983 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.1 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3 7.06452816374 174% => 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: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199430332065 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0786078739721 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104127489557 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129484800285 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758969099095 0.0443174109184 171% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => 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: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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