The reading passage states that there are three interesting behavior of elephant - awareness of death, representation objects through art, and fear of mice. However, the lecturer provides detailed explanations and evidences to refute the author's claim.
To begin with, the passage mentions that elephants is capable of anticipating their incoming death. Nevertheless, the speaker points out there is another cause behind the fact. The older elephants came to riverside alone does not necessarily mean that they understood the death is coming. To be more specific, since elephants' teeth begun to weather when they are getting old, they can't chew hard food as what they usually do before, they started to set out to find softer food. They come to riverside and died alone because there is full of soft vegetarian.
The writer also asserts that elephants have artistic ability. However, the lecture dispels this myth by providing detailed evidence. As a matter of fact, trainers forces elephants to remember certain brush strokes by pulling their ears, which are very sensitive. It follows that they don't have the sense of art and they are just replicating what they remembered.
Finally, the writer tells us that elephants are fear of mice. Once again, the lecturer provides another explanation to challenge the author's claim. Elephants' fear of mice comes from the unfamiliarity to mice. That is to say, elephants avoid mice just because they have not seen mice before and it's animal instinct to avoid the unknown. In addition, the elephants living at zoo does not demonstrate fear since they knew that mice will not do harm to them.
With the supporting explanation and evidences stated above, the lecturer rejects the common myth of elephants' behavior in the passage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 382, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...weather when they are getting old, they cant chew hard food as what they usually do ...
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Line 5, column 285, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...re very sensitive. It follows that they dont have the sense of art and they are just...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, nevertheless, so, in addition, as a matter of fact, to begin with, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22027972028 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6025005789 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56993006993 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8771447357 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.8235294118 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8235294118 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.41176470588 7.06452816374 91% => OK
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 : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.158444858825 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575185118784 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0468801795928 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0892595387273 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0353459023744 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.7 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 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.