Toward the end of his life the Chevalier de Seingalt 1725 1798 wrote a long memoir recounting hislife and adventures The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure but since he met many famouspeople including kings and writers his memoir has b

The reading piece and lecture is regarding the long memoir of Chevalier de Seingalt, a controversial figure. The author of the reading states that the memoir is not accurate and claims that many events have been invented or distorted to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous whereas the lecturer states that the memoir is reliable in many ways. The lecturer casts doubts on the main points mentioned in the reading by using three examples.

Preeminently, according to the reading, Chevalier had borrowed considerable amount of money from Swiss merchant and thus could not have been wealthy as he claims. However, the lecturer disputes this points. He affirms that it used to take time to convert assets into money and Chevalier used to borrow money when he ran out of cash.

By the same token, the reading states that the conversation between Chevalier and the famous writer Voltaire, cannot be completely accurate. Congruously, the author suggests that the conversation took place many years ago and it is not possible to capture the conversation accurately. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this argument. He asserts that Chevalier wrote down the conversation that took place between them each night and used it as a reference while writing the memoir.

In winding up, the reading contends that Chevalier's escape from prison have been possible due to his strong connection with political people. The author totally opposes the claim made by Chevalier that he escaped the prison by making a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is that there were more people in the prison who had better connections than Chevalier and still were unable to escape the prison. In addition, the lecturer also points out that there have been official claims that the ceiling of the room where Chevalier was staying had to be repaired after he escaped.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 355, 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.
...at the memoir is reliable in many ways. The lecturer casts doubts on the main point...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the reading by using three examples. Preeminently, according to the reading, ...
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Line 5, column 100, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... between Chevalier and the famous writer Voltaire, cannot be completely accurate....
^^
Line 7, column 305, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...bing through the roof. In contrast, the lecturers stance is that there were more people i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, nevertheless, regarding, so, still, thus, whereas, while, in addition, in contrast, by the same token

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10256410256 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60058777746 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528846153846 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9270594136 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.714285714 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2857142857 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.225229428818 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0760260630558 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691114445462 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131619531244 0.162205337803 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0496864899801 0.0443174109184 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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