Private collectors have been selling and buying fossils, the petrified remains of ancient organisms, ever since the eighteenth century. In recent years, however, the sale of fossils, particularly of dinosaurs and other large vertebrates, has grown into a

The passage claims that the fascination to the largest land animal , that is, Elephants led to the development of several beliefs about their surprising behavior and the author provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that instead of being fascinating it is, the beliefs about the behavior of elephant held by the author are misunderstanding and she refutes each of the author's claim.

First, the passage posits that all elephants are aware of their death which is approaching. Hence, they depart their herds and goo of alone to riversides where they die alone. the professor contradicts this point by stating that the departure of old elephants are not due to their upcoming death. She explains that the teeth of old elephants become old and weak. So, these animals require soft vegetation at that time which are available to the areas near to river. Hence, they depart from their herds and live nearside the river and ultimately die there. That's why, their bones are found there.

Second, the article posits that elephants possess artistic feature. The professors contends that the trainer actually teaches the elephants to hold paintbrush and direct them how to stroke. Moreover, It doesn't necessary to assume that each stroke represents a recognizable things like flower.

Finally, the professor opposes the claim of the passage that elephants are petrified to mice. She explains that once the elephant get to know that, mice are not dangerous, the herd don't leave the area having mice and don't show any reaction to mice.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 67, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...e fascination to the largest land animal , that is, Elephants led to the developme...
^^
Line 3, column 177, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...one to riversides where they die alone. the professor contradicts this point by sta...
^^^
Line 3, column 557, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
...ide the river and ultimately die there. Thats why, their bones are found there. Se...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 84, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'contend'.
Suggestion: contend
...ossess artistic feature. The professors contends that the trainer actually teaches the e...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 204, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...direct them how to stroke. Moreover, It doesnt necessary to assume that each stroke re...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 274, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'thing'?
Suggestion: thing
...t each stroke represents a recognizable things like flower. Finally, the professo...
^^^^^^
Line 8, column 182, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... that, mice are not dangerous, the herd dont leave the area having mice and dont sho...
^^^^
Line 8, column 218, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...erd dont leave the area having mice and dont show any reaction to mice.
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1310.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15748031496 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53723974902 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562992125984 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 395.1 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.0282698307 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5714285714 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1428571429 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0148220739743 0.272083759551 5% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00525897952063 0.0996497079465 5% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0106093016985 0.0662205650399 16% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.010365070573 0.162205337803 6% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0119598969134 0.0443174109184 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => 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: 12.35 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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