TPO extra 3, anting
The passage and the lecture are both about a phenomenon called anting in which after picking up the ant they rub it on their feather. According to this phenomenon the author of the passage is of an opinion that this habit in birds have some benefits. On the other hand, the professor contradicts each of the claims addressed by the author. He thinks it is unclear whether this activity has benefits for birds or not.
To begin with, the author believes that this action is occured in order to relieve skin irritation that birds feel in summer. This claim is challenged by the lecturer. He accepts this happened in summer but he think it is not because of the fact that the passage mentions. However, he holds an opinion that this is only because ants are more active in the summer than other seasons so it makes easier for birds to find small insects and catch them.
Secondly, the reading passage asserts that fowls rub ant on their feathers because they want to make a protection layer on their body to be safe from parasites. According to the researched mentioned by the lecture, the professor believes it is not reasonable to consider this action as a protection since the scholars have rebuted it.
Finally, the author of the passage indicates that by rubing ants on body, birds make those creatures ready to be eatten after elliminating bitter taste from them. The professor says if it is true, why they rub anything they found on their body instead of ants. He mentions that they do the same action with cigarette or soups. It is obvious they do not eat neither cigarette nor soup. In other words, he believe it is only an instinctive behavior.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 210, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'thinks'.
Suggestion: thinks
... accepts this happened in summer but he think it is not because of the fact that the ...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 226, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_THE_FACT_THAT[1]
Message: This phrase is redundant. Use simply 'because'.
Suggestion: because
...ppened in summer but he think it is not because of the fact that the passage mentions. However, he holds...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 327, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lds an opinion that this is only because ants are more active in the summer than ...
^^
Line 4, column 404, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'believes'.
Suggestion: believes
... cigarette nor soup. In other words, he believe it is only an instinctive behavior.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in other words, it is true, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 44.0 22.412803532 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1364.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65529010239 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4147234043 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522184300341 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2419549358 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9333333333 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5333333333 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0731577822077 0.272083759551 27% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0242780227872 0.0996497079465 24% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451972199332 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0510838421177 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0186938440985 0.0443174109184 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.2367328918 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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