TPO 51- 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 o

The passage and lecture are arguing over some beliefs about the elephants. The author lists three surprising beliefs about the elephants. On the contrary, the lecturer casts doubt on these beliefs and she refuses these beliefs one by one.

Firstly, it is said on the passage that old elephants are aware about their deaths' time and leave the herd. In contrast, the professor challenges this point and she mentions that old elephent leave the herd and go around the water for eating soft vegetables. Therefore, these behavior of the old elephants has nothing to do with their deaths.

Secondly, the author maintains that the elephants are able to draw some paints on the canvas which demonstrates the artistic ability of the elephants. The lecturer, however, rebuts this matter and she asserts that elephants have sensitive ears. In this way, some trainers tame the elephants to move the brush on the canvas. In short, the elephants have no idea about the objects like flowers or animals which they draw and they move the brush at the same time their ears are touched.

Thirdly, the author suggests that elephants like human beings have a fear of mice. Nevertheless, the lecturer objects this point and she points out that the elephants which are unfamiliar with mice, are afraid of mice. For example, there is a specific type of the elephant that are living in common places with mice and they know that mice have no poisonous substances, thus they are not afraid of mice.

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Average: 6.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 271, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this behavior' or 'these behaviors'?
Suggestion: this behavior; these behaviors
... for eating soft vegetables. Therefore, these behavior of the old elephants has nothing to do ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, for example, in contrast, in short, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1233.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 251.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91235059761 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36747268325 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509960159363 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 377.1 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
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: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.3969590258 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8461538462 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3076923077 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8461538462 7.06452816374 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175500709401 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680840815793 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0363244104636 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0991506619656 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425054517478 0.0443174109184 96% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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