The lecturer disputes the author's suggested theory that the Greeks had some highly advanced technological weapons. He provides several reason to cast doubt about the author's claims
First,The speaker does not agree with the first point made in the reading that ancient Greek did not have any advanced technological weapons. He contends that the ancient Greeks were equip ed with some highly advanced weapons like the multi-layer copper mirror which is capable to reflect more light to transmit more energy to cause highly destructive fire in a couple of minutes.
Second, according to the text the burning mirror weapon is not practical to be used because it takes more more than 10 minutes to cause fire. the speaker find idea debatable, he bolsters his opinion by stating that it is true that ships made of wood takes longer time to catch fire, However, some ships are not made only of glue, but also of glue which can easily catch fire.Moreover, ship that have glue can catch fire inspite of being in a moving position.
The author argues that the Greeks already had the burning arrows which is also an effective weapon to fight the Romans. The lecturer refutes this claim by stating that developing the burning mirror instead of the burning arrow has several advantages. Particularly, it can take the enemy by surprise which makes the fire more flammable and uncontrollable
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 128, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun reason seems to be countable; consider using: 'several reasons'.
Suggestion: several reasons
...nced technological weapons. He provides several reason to cast doubt about the authors claims ...
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Line 3, column 6, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , The
... doubt about the authors claims First,The speaker does not agree with the first p...
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Line 3, column 179, Rule ID: WERE_VBB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'where' or 'we'?
Suggestion: where; we
...ns. He contends that the ancient Greeks were equip ed with some highly advanced weap...
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Line 3, column 184, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'equipped'.
Suggestion: equipped
...e contends that the ancient Greeks were equip ed with some highly advanced weapons li...
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Line 4, column 102, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: more
...t practical to be used because it takes more more than 10 minutes to cause fire. the spea...
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Line 4, column 102, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'more' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: more
...t practical to be used because it takes more more than 10 minutes to cause fire. the spea...
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Line 4, column 142, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...ore more than 10 minutes to cause fire. the speaker find idea debatable, he bolster...
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Line 4, column 375, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Moreover
...lso of glue which can easily catch fire.Moreover, ship that have glue can catch fire ins...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, moreover, second, so, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1154.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99567099567 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48499931666 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 360.0 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.0013204103 49.2860985944 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.25 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.875 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.375 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.116689944108 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566242984431 0.0996497079465 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0523475079629 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0685941499519 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352047985966 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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