TPO30
The article introduces the topic of Roman's attack the Greek and the Greek defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror to set Romans' ships on fire. More specifically, the writer discusses that using a burning mirror in that time would be impossible and it is just a story. The lecturer in the listening passage disagrees. He casts doubt on the main points in the reading by providing three reasons.
First of all, according to the reading, the ancient Greeks did not have sufficient knowledge to invent this device. However, the lecturer disputes these points. He states that making a burning mirror is not a perplexing subject. He goes on to say that the Greek mathematicians might be able how to make this system by using some mirror pieces.
secondly, the author also claims that the burning mirror would have taken a long time to start a fire to ships and during that time the object had to be unmoving. Again, the lecturer believes there are flaws in the writer's argument. The speaker holds that building boats require some other materials, not just wood which leads a ship to the fire quickly even if a ship was moving.
Finally, the last reason why the author feels that making a burning mirror for ancient Greeks was not logical is that using flaming arrows to fire ships was common in that time which means the Greeks had no reason to make a burning mirror. On the other hand, the professor in the listening passage is doubtful that is accurate. He thinks that setting fire by a burning mirror was strange for Roman soldiers.
In conclusion, although the reading and the lecture are both about making a burning mirror by ancient Greeks is reliable or not, the three main points made in the reading are effectively challenged by the lecturer.
- tpo33 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 89
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily. Use specific reasons and 76
- TPO30 73
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past. 76
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Secondly
...is system by using some mirror pieces. secondly, the author also claims that the burnin...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 215, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ecturer believes there are flaws in the writers argument. The speaker holds that buildi...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1478.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78317152104 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42872874282 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498381877023 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 444.6 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2217518859 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.5333333333 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86666666667 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.509363823815 0.272083759551 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152159318059 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.139478498265 0.0662205650399 211% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.277823304248 0.162205337803 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0907565656343 0.0443174109184 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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