The writer in the passage claims that Chevalier memoir is has many controversies as it is not accurate. However, the speaker in the lectures opposes the opinion of writer and gives his reasons as following.
Firstly, the writer in passage contradicts the statement that Chevalier was a wealthy person when he lived in Switzerland and spend money on parties and gambling, because there were some clues that he borrowed money from merchants there.
However, the speaker in the lecture opposes this stating that even if a person a has huge properties and money it would take time to convert them to liquid cash. Therefore, he might borrowed the money for the time being.
Secondly, writer in the passage suspects on the conversations with voltaire mentioned in the memoir because, he tells that how would a person remember the conversations for so long time that he mentioned word to word in the memoir. so he feels that it may not be accurate. On the other hand, the speaker opposes this saying that Chevalier wrote their conversations daily after they are done which he used as the source when he was writing his memoir.
Next, writer in the passages casts doubt on his escape from Venice prison mentioned in the memoir, which is he thinks as unbelievable. Moreover, he mentions that when Chevalier has many friend who can bribe for him and release him from the jail why would he escape from the ceiling ? The speaker supports Chevalier stating that the roof of the prison was repaired which proves that he escaped from ceiling. He adds that besides Chevalier many other prisoner were equally powerful in the jail and could bribe to let them free which was not possible at the moment.
Finally, the speaker in the lecture opposes the claims of writer in the passage on Chevalier memoir and its accuracy giving his reasons for holding the decision.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 233, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...e mentioned word to word in the memoir. so he feels that it may not be accurate. O...
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Line 8, column 182, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun friend seems to be countable; consider using: 'many friends'.
Suggestion: many friends
...er, he mentions that when Chevalier has many friend who can bribe for him and release him f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => 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: 1550.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 317.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88958990536 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48663211325 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463722397476 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 468.9 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5536949064 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.230769231 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3846153846 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.61538461538 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.408327761288 0.272083759551 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.166110796135 0.0996497079465 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0777892017921 0.0662205650399 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219476114931 0.162205337803 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758309816046 0.0443174109184 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.57 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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