the possibilty of the use of an ancient weapon by the Greeks in a war against the Romans
The passage and the talk both discuss the possibility of the use of an ancient weapon by the Greeks in a war against the Romans. The author claims that it was unlikely that Greeks could exert this kind of advanced weapon on that time and it is more of a myth. The lecturer, however, refutes the author's assessment. She demonstrates three reasons to cast doubt on the claims made in the reading.
The first allegation of the passage against which the lecturer argues is that the ancient Greeks were not technologically such an advanced that could make such big reflecting mirror. In contrast, the professor highlights the fact that they had not to produce such a big copper mirror from a single part of a sheet. She asserts that they could manufacture that huge parabolic copper mirror by shaping smaller piece of that and adhering them together.
Second, according to the reading, by means of the polished surface of the copper it takes a long time, about ten minutes, to set the wood on fire so, Romans would not be such a long time motionless. ; Although, the speaker finds this idea debatable. She bolsters her opinion by stating that Romans' ships were not only made of wood and some materials they had used in their ships could catch fire quickly.
Finally, the lecture contradicts this fallacy of the passage that the mirror was not more efficient than flaming arrows, saying that, the Roman soldiers were familiar with the flaming arrows and they could preserve their ships from them; while, suddenly catching fire in some places of their ships would be surprising for them. Therefore, the tremendous mirror was remarkably effective.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 261, 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.
... on that time and it is more of a myth. The lecturer, however, refutes the authors ...
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Line 1, column 296, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...yth. The lecturer, however, refutes the authors assessment. She demonstrates three reas...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, second, so, therefore, while, in contrast, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => 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: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87142857143 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47439234858 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539285714286 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.3543972398 49.2860985944 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.666666667 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200801771733 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0741173182862 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134684578225 0.0662205650399 203% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120019942997 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104983846586 0.0443174109184 237% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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