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
Both the reading and listening are arguing over elephants behaviors. The author of the reading believes elephants behave in shocking and amazing way. The lecturer challenges the author's claim. She believes because of misunderstanding us about this concepet we think elephants act differentl and amazing.
First of all, the reading asserts that elephants can sense and know when will they die and they go to a specific place and will be ready to die. Conversely, the lecturer argues that elephants do not aware about their death time, and it has a explenation for why elephants leave their herds and being alone and go to the near of river. When elephants get old, it would be difficult for them to eat the regular food. As a result, they perfer to eat soft foods, and soft vegetation would be find near the river.
Second, the writer claims that elephants have natural ability of art, and they can paint wonderful paintings. On the contrary, the speaker believes that elephants have a strong and sensetive ears which can hear everything subtly. When, humans train elephants how to paint line ; elephants pay attentation to their coach and panit in satisfiction way. Humans when they observe this phenomenon, encourage elephants to paint.
Finally, the redaing asserts that elephants have a fear of mic. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue because elephants when they do not know or be familiar with animal they have a fear. Foe instance, elephants live in zoo they do not have this fear, because they are familar with mic and do not react fearing.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 240, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ware about their death time, and it has a explenation for why elephants leave the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, if, second, so, in contrast, as a result, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1297.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93155893536 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57303499159 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543726235741 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.1564501699 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.4666666667 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5333333333 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237844621329 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0950605128188 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0501072895708 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151645832372 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0423380934303 0.0443174109184 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => 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: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.48 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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