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.
The reading passage and the listening talk about the surprising elephant behaviors. Despite that, the professor in the lecture states that there are some misunderstandings on these beliefs. She casts doubts on every single point the reading makes and uses specific details to support her idea in the lecture.
To begin with, the author claims that elephants are aware of death as they will leave their herds and move the location near water to die alone. However, the speaker states that the behavior of leaving herd and finding water is because old elephants usually do not have strong teeth and have difficulties in chewing. They need to find soft vegetables to eat and these soft vegetables are usually near water. Thus, it is called "elephant graveyards" Therefore, the professor can not give a nod to the writer in terms of the first point.
Secondly, about the artistic ability, the writer mentions that elephants can use their trunk to hold paintbrush and paint on a canvas whereas the lecturer thinks that the behaviors are actually controlled by human. The fact is that elephants' ears are sensitive, and human pull their ears to train the elephants so that elephants can draw some certain pattern. Elephants do not know those lines are representing flowers or animals. Apparently, the professor's argument disproves its counterpart in the reading.
In addition, the reading indicates that elephants are afraid of mice. The lecturer, on the other hand, holds the view that the reaction from elephants is because they are unfamiliar with mice. It is elephants' nature instinct to behave cautious. Once elephants know the mice have no threats, they are fine with mice.
In conclusion, the author and the professor hold the conflicting views on this topic.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 448, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, apparently, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, whereas, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14482758621 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71881627736 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568965517241 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.5806220598 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.25 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.125 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.375 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223871404843 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733078921383 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629512882179 0.0662205650399 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105856511958 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0765258080146 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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