Both the reading material and the lecture talk about whether ancient Greeks use the burning mirror to set the fire or not. The reading material takes three reasons to refute the use of burning mirror. However, the professor in the lecture thinks completely different from the reading.
First of all, the reading material believes that ancient Greeks were not enough technologically advanced to manufacture such a wide mirror and precise parabolic curvature. On the other hand, The professor states that Although a single sheet of copper could not be parabolize ancient Greeks used an assembly of copper sheets for manufacturing the mirror because that the assembly of copper sheets behaviors different from single sheets.
Secondly, the reading passage says that using a burning mirror take a long time, around ten minutes, to set fire on wooden objects. Therefore, this device was impractical and ineffective. In contrast, the professor has a different idea. Although she believes that this matter is correct for the woody boat, she says that most of the boats used a sticky matter which its name is pitch. this sticky material could set up the fire quickly in seconds not minutes.
Finally, the reading passage says that ancient Greeks had flaming arrows which could work such a burning mirror. Therefore, there was not any reason for them to use the burning mirror. However, the professor refutes this notion. She states that the Romans were familiar with flaming arrows. Also, they could see that the enemy wanted to set the fire and they could see the flaming arrow. But, when the ancient Greeks used the burning mirrors, the enemy just saw the mirror, not the fire and mirrors made the enemy surprise. Hence, the burning mirrors were more effective than the flaming arrows.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 386, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
... sticky matter which its name is pitch. this sticky material could set up the fire q...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1495.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08503401361 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36357360163 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479591836735 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 453.6 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.7490001516 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.9411764706 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2941176471 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.29411764706 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36557192898 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127905962286 0.0996497079465 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0892024673698 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230333242386 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0835045476186 0.0443174109184 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.