The burning mirror
The burning mirror is a device that Greeks could have used to protect themseleves from Roman navy. This mirror was made from apolish copper surface in spesific curved shape. Recently, some controversy has been generated about whether or not ancient Greeks were actually used the burning mirror as a weapon. The reading states that Greek did not use the burning mirror to defend themselves for three possible reasons. However, the speaker argues that none of the points the writer claimed are accuarte.
The first point of dispute is if Greek were capable of making the burning mirror. The lectuere explains that Greeks were technologically advenced to make a such device. This is because they could have used small pices of polished copper material and arrgned them to make a curved large mirror. Thus, the Greeks did not need manufacturs to creat a such device. By contrast, the author is simply content to accept the idea that Greeks were sophisticated enough to produce a parabola shape weapon.
The second controversial issue is about if the burning mirror take a really long time to start a fire on Roman's ships. According to the professor, a burning mirror was not used to start fire on the wooden material of the ships. Ships usually are made from serveral metrials such as pitch which is substantce that use to glue the wooden parts together. Thus, burning mirror can start the fire in a ship within few seconds even if the vehicale was moving. Interestingly, the writer does not conisder the other material that ships were made of and belives that it is not easy to start a fire in ships by using burning mirrors.
The final point of debate is the question of if burning mirror is like flaming arrow. The speaker says that burning mirror is unlike the flaming arrow because Romans were not able to see the fire as they see it with using flaming arrows. Thus, they were not aware of it to put the fire off very quickly. Suprisingly, despite this possible rationale, the author ignores all these possible explanations and convincied that Greeks did not need to use the burning mirror to start a fire in Roman's ships.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 227, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...me controversy has been generated about whether or not ancient Greeks were actually used the b...
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Line 6, column 314, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
... such as pitch which is substantce that use to glue the wooden parts together. Thus...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, really, second, so, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => 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: 1769.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 368.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80706521739 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4060792939 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464673913043 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 553.5 419.366225166 132% => 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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1532313742 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.1052631579 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3684210526 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.31578947368 7.06452816374 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.427361084259 0.272083759551 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168319669723 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134817979877 0.0662205650399 204% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.297738002579 0.162205337803 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0842473999227 0.0443174109184 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => 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: 10.62 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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