Anting
Being an astonishing behavior observed on birds, anting is a phenomenon that fills scientists with incertitude. According to the passage, timing, prevention of parasites, and the tasting of ants seem to be the purposes, but none of them could stand the further scrutiny of the lecture.
The passage states, in the first paragraph, that acid from the ants could ease the constrained feeling in the changing of feathers. The coincidence of two factors, namely the large population of ants, and the feather-changing process of birds, would lead to this theory. So the lecture is rational to conclude that there must be more specific reasons why birds love anting.
After dealing with the first assumption from the passage, the lecture begins to explain the second reason. The lecture states that acid spray is useless for the prevention of parasites on the bird’s body. The theory is also crumbled by a research that shows birds engaged in anting don’t seem to have fewer parasites.
The passage’s last attempt to explain anting has also been defeated by the lecture. Scientists believe that ants that lack acids would taste better, but through further exploration, there are more things that birds enjoy rubbing with. Pieces of soap and pieces of cigarettes are accountable items to explain the theory, but in the end, no birds would swallow them.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 237, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...’s body. The theory is also crumbled by a research that shows birds engaged in anting don’...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, 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.
...g don’t seem to have fewer parasites. The passage’s last attempt to explain antin...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1135.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11261261261 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64549438337 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581081081081 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 333.9 419.366225166 80% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.3245955858 49.2860985944 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.181818182 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1818181818 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 7.06452816374 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.268273687181 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109668785894 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101583079098 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171153182621 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0618820689583 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 237, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...’s body. The theory is also crumbled by a research that shows birds engaged in anting don’...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 1, 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.
...g don’t seem to have fewer parasites. The passage’s last attempt to explain antin...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1135.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11261261261 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64549438337 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581081081081 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 333.9 419.366225166 80% => 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.3245955858 49.2860985944 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.181818182 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1818181818 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 7.06452816374 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => 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: 0.268273687181 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109668785894 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101583079098 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171153182621 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0618820689583 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.