The speaker disputes the author's suggested theory that Chevalier's memoir about his life adventures was not accurate. She provides several reasons to cast doubt about the author's claims.
First, according to the text Chevalier was not a rich person because he borrowed money from a wealthy merchant to cover his debts. However, the lecturer finds this idea debatable. She believes that indeed Chevalier may have been a wealthy person because he had lots of properties which are worth lots of money, but he might have temporarily borrowed some money to cover his dues.
Second, the lecturer contradict the fallacy of the passage that since the memoir were written immediately after the conversation between Chevalier and Voltaire, it is highly unlikely that Chevalier was able to remember the details of the conversation and write them down. However, the lecturer disputes these claims. She contends that Chevalier was always writing notes about his conversations with Voltaire. Thus, the memoir is correct.
Finally, the author argues the Chevalier did not escape from prison in Italy. She believes that Chevalier had some contact with politicians who influenced his release. On the other hand, the lecturer argues that it is highly possible that Chevalier did escape. She contends that other prisoners had contact with politicians yet, they were not able to escape. Moreover, the prison's guards confirm the presence of a hole in the ceiling right after Chevalier's escape.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 116, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...emoir were written immediately after the conversation between Chevalier and Volta...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1247.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32905982906 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55783064839 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 381.6 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 61.6406637584 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0714285714 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7142857143 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 0.227289164945 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811468023671 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0669552702677 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140926465888 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322403835361 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => 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: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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