Anting
Being an astonishing behavior observed on birds, anting is a phenomenon that fills scientists with incertitude. According to the passage, timing, prevention of parasites, and the tasting of ants seem to be the purposes, but none of them could stand the further scrutiny of the lecture.
The passage states, in the first paragraph, that acid from the ants can ease the constrained feeling in the changing of feathers. The coincidence of two factors, namely the large population of ants, and the feather-changing process of birds, will lead to this theory. So the lecture is rational to conclude that there must be more specific reasons why birds love anting.
After dealing with the first assumption from the passage, the lecture begins to explain the second reason. The lecture states that acid spray is useless for the prevention of parasites on the bird’s body. The theory is also crumbled by a research that shows birds engaged in anting don’t seem to have fewer parasites.
The passage’s last attempt to explain anting has also been defeated by the lecture. Scientists believe that ants that lack acids would taste better, but through further exploration, there are more things that birds enjoy rubbing with. Pieces of soap and pieces of cigarettes are good items to explain the theory, but in the end, no birds would swallow them.
In a conclusion, all the theories on the anting behavior of birds have been proved baseless. As for scientists, the phenomenon is still unknown to them, and will still be a mystery to solve.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 237, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...’s body. The theory is also crumbled by a research that shows birds engaged in anting don’...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...g don’t seem to have fewer parasites. The passage’s last attempt to explain antin...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, still, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1284.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 256.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.015625 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65007324118 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55859375 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 24.1099552224 49.2860985944 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 98.7692307692 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6923076923 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61538461538 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.282965241359 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110548044188 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103846238597 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166918205676 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559933253679 0.0443174109184 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => 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: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 237, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...’s body. The theory is also crumbled by a research that shows birds engaged in anting don’...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...g don’t seem to have fewer parasites. The passage’s last attempt to explain antin...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, still, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1284.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 256.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.015625 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65007324118 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55859375 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 24.1099552224 49.2860985944 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 98.7692307692 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6923076923 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61538461538 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.282965241359 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110548044188 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103846238597 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166918205676 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559933253679 0.0443174109184 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => 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: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.