Anting Scientists are looking for the reasons behind an interesting phenomenon that many birds engage in anting According to the passage the purposes seem to be assisting their skin to feel better defending against parasites and getting their food ready b

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Anting
Scientists are looking for the reasons behind an interesting phenomenon that many birds engage in anting. According to the passage, the purposes seem to be assisting their skin to feel better, defending against parasites, and getting their food ready, but none of them are the truth of anting.
To first challenge the first theory, the lecture disputes the claim of the passage that anting makes birds feel better and more comfortable when they are losing old feathers and growing new feathers. Birds can find more ants in summer because they come out more. So anting more in summer and changing feathers in the summer must a coincidence or a fluke.
The lecture also proves that the passage is baseless to claim that anting can help to defend against parasites. These birds that do anting should have fewer parasites, however, according to recent research, the birds that are engaged in anting and those that don’t have the same amount of parasites on their body.
After challenging the first two theories, the lecture begins to deal with the last one. The passage believes anting can help them to get food ready by making the ants spray their acids, while the lecture states birds also use other objects other than anting to rub on their feather too, like cigarettes and soap, but these things are not for eating.
In short, the theories mentioned in the passage must not be the reasons birds enjoy anting.

Anting
Scientists are looking for the reasons behind an interesting phenomenon that many birds engage in anting. According to the passage, the purposes seem to be assisting their skin to feel better, defending against parasites, and getting their food ready, but none of them are the truth of anting.
To first challenge the first theory, the lecture disputes the claim of the passage that anting makes birds feel better and more comfortable when they are losing old feathers and growing new feathers. Birds can find more ants in summer because they come out more. So anting more in summer and changing feathers in the summer must a coincidence or a fluke.
The lecture also proves that the passage is baseless to claim that anting can help to defend against parasites. These birds that do anting should have fewer parasites, however, according to recent research, the birds that are engaged in anting and those that don’t have the same amount of parasites on their body.
After challenging the first two theories, the lecture begins to deal with the last one. The passage believes anting can help them to get food ready by making the ants spray their acids, while the lecture states birds also use other objects other than anting to rub on their feather too, like cigarettes and soap, but these things are not for eating.
In short, the theories mentioned in the passage must not be the reasons birds enjoy anting.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, look, so, while, in short

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1182.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88429752066 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.24531933514 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.898728127 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.2 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.521652731299 0.272083759551 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.188225889445 0.0996497079465 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146892826117 0.0662205650399 222% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269226064052 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.182140564769 0.0443174109184 411% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, look, so, while, in short

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1182.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88429752066 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.24531933514 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.898728127 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.2 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.521652731299 0.272083759551 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.188225889445 0.0996497079465 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146892826117 0.0662205650399 222% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269226064052 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.182140564769 0.0443174109184 411% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.