In this reading, the author presents three beliefs about elephant behaviors, which all contradict the main idea of the professor in the lecture by saying that they are misunderstandings.
First of all, the author points out that elephants have the ability to know their approaching death because many elderly elephants' bodies are found near water sites. Nevertheless, the professor argues that when elephants get older, they need to find some soft vegetation to eat as their chewing ability decrease, these soft vegetation can be found near water. Thus, these older elephants will eventually die there.
Second, opposing to the idea provided by the author that elephants have the artistic ability by using a paintbrush and draw on the canvas, the professor put forward that elephants' painting ability is the result of human training by touching their sensitive ears. But this painting ability trained by humans does not represent that elephants know what exactly they are drawing.
Finally, the author indicates that elephants are afraid of mice according to a Roman scientist and recent scientific survey. By contrast, the professor points out that these results are misrepresenting. She says that the elephants avoid mice just due to they are unfamiliar with mice and it is a natural instinct of animals. Besides, the professor argues that elephants in the zoo do not have fear of mice, because they are close to mice and their familiarity shows that mice are not harmful to them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 184, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y saying that they are misunderstandings First of all the author points out that ...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...s know what exactly they are drawing Finally the author indicates that elephants are...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, first, if, nevertheless, second, so, thus, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1228.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 241.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09543568465 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61062139891 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535269709544 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => 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: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 13.0662251656 8% => 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: 241.0 21.2450331126 1134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.2860985944 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1228.0 110.228320801 1114% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 241.0 21.698381199 1111% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 78.0 7.06452816374 1104% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.20335668615 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.20335668615 0.0996497079465 204% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121177364972 0.162205337803 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425368316748 0.0443174109184 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 123.1 13.3589403974 921% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -173.14 53.8541721854 -321% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 5.55761589404 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 97.3 11.0289183223 882% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.78 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 19.13 8.42419426049 227% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 58.0 10.7273730684 541% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 98.4 10.498013245 937% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 58.0 11.2008830022 518% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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