Both the reading and the lecture are talk about the possible reasons of a behavior in birts, rubbing the ants on their feathers. With this in mind, the author states that there are several possibility benefits for birds can get frome thid behavior. On the other hand, the professor contradicts all three episodes of arguments mentioned in the passage, believing that non of them are compelling.
First of all, the writer holds the view that birds rub ants on their feather to relieve the feeling of skin irritation during summer. Conversely, the professor makes it clear that it maybe a coincident and have different purpose. For instance, ants are more active during summer so birds can easily see and find ants during summer.
Second, the reading selection put forth the idea of influence of formic acid on the parasites which can help birds protect from external parasites. However, the speaker mentions that studies have shown no realation between protection of birds from parasites by the influence of formic acid. If it has any relation it should be less parasites on the birds' body during summer.
Finally, the lecturer argues that this behavior can remove the bitterness of formic acid which releas by ants and provide a better tast foods for birds. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this idea and mentions that birds rub the other inappropriate stuff on their feathers such as cigarates. Therefore, it can be concluded that rubbing ants on birds' feather have nothing to do with food preperation.
Both the reading and the lecture are talk about the possible reasons of a behavior in birts, rubbing the ants on their feathers. With this in mind, the author states that there are several possibility benefits for birds can get frome thid behavior. On the other hand, the professor contradicts all three episodes of arguments mentioned in the passage, believing that non of them are compelling.
First of all, the writer holds the view that birds rub ants on their feather to relieve the feeling of skin irritation during summer. Conversely, the professor makes it clear that it maybe a coincident and have different purpose. For instance, ants are more active during summer so birds can easily see and find ants during summer.
Second, the reading selection put forth the idea of influence of formic acid on the parasites which can help birds protect from external parasites. However, the speaker mentions that studies have shown no realation between protection of birds from parasites by the influence of formic acid. If it has any relation it should be less parasites on the birds' body during summer.
Finally, the lecturer argues that this behavior can remove the bitterness of formic acid which releas by ants and provide a better tast foods for birds. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this idea and mentions that birds rub the other inappropriate stuff on their feathers such as cigarates. Therefore, it can be concluded that rubbing ants on birds' feather have nothing to do with food preperation.
- tpo31 80
- Soon technology will provide smart cars: cars that virtually drive themselves. A computer in the car determines the speed and route to the desired destination. The computer is in continuous contact with a global positioning system and other technologies t 78
- TPO 36 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is important for governments to protect wild animals and wilderness areas for the future generations. 73
- tpo 27 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 328, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun parasites is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...id. If it has any relation it should be less parasites on the birds body during summ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, for instance, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1276.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04347826087 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49553335613 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553359683794 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.2386050722 49.2860985944 45% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.333333333 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.25 7.06452816374 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.449096205053 0.272083759551 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170297528512 0.0996497079465 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.219596055862 0.0662205650399 332% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285299919614 0.162205337803 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.265679160099 0.0443174109184 599% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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