Humans have long been fascinated by elephants, the largest land animal in the modern world. Social animals that live in herds, elephants are native to both Africa and Asia. Their large ears, long trunk, and long life span have made elephants one of the most captivating creatures on Earth. Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors. Elephants Are Aware of Approaching Death One of the popular beliefs is that when elephants become old and weak, they know that they are nearing the end of their lives. They demonstrate this by breaking away from their herds and going off alone to certain locations often found near bodies of water - so called "elephant graveyards" - to die alone. The idea that old elephants seem aware that they will die soon is supported by the discovery of many sites containing bones exclusively of elderly elephants. Representing Objects through Art Additionally, elephants seem to have artistic ability. Elephants can be taught to hold a paintbrush in their trunk and use it to paint on a canvas. Some elephants have been known to paint drawings that represent recognizable things: flowers, other elephants, even themselves. This talent makes elephants the only animal other than humans to produce art representing the world around them. Fear of Mice Finally, it has long been believed that elephants have a fear of mice. In 77 C.E., the Roman philosopher and scientist Pliny the Elder wrote that elephants are more afraid of mice, small mammals that can do elephants no harm, than of the much more dangerous animals with which elephants normally share an environment, such as lions or tigers. In a recent scientific experiment in which a herd of elephants was confronted with several mice, the elephants backed away from the mice and left the area to avoid them.
In the lecture, the professor is skeptical about the idea of the reding passage that elephants have three surprising behaviors in people's beliefs. The professor, however, argues that these are totally the misunderstanding of elephants behaviors.
First,in the reading passage, it pointed out that elephants have the ability of awaring of approaching death. On the contrary, the professor maintains that when elephants get older, their teeth will turn to less efficient and it is difficilt for them to chew food. In order to get soft vegetable, they have to go to there near the water. That's why there are only olderly elephants's bones are found.
Second, the professor then challenges the reading's claim that elephants have artistic ability. She suggests that this is because of artificial traning that elephant can paint flowers or other things. Human lead elephants to draw pictures by touching their sensitive ears.
Finally, the professor addresses that elephants are not afraid of the mice itself. Just because the mice are the creature they don't familiarize, they think mice might pose a threat to them. Once elephants get familiarize with mice, they will not mind them any more. However, according to the reading passage, elephants are fear of mice.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 6, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , in
...tanding of elephants behaviors. First,in the reading passage, it pointed out tha...
^^^
Line 3, column 339, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
...hey have to go to there near the water. Thats why there are only olderly elephantss b...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 128, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... because the mice are the creature they dont familiarize, they think mice might pos...
^^^^
Line 7, column 156, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eature they dont familiarize, they think mice might pose a threat to them. Once e...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, so, then, 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: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1064.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 202.0 270.72406181 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26732673267 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65254158592 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.618811881188 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 324.0 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.7810543761 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.8461538462 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5384615385 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76923076923 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.15887404593 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0626207607965 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386659535978 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103742660654 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372156970294 0.0443174109184 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.