1. Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, ar

While it maybe true that Plean baskets may also exist in other cultures such as Lithos, this author's argument does not provide enough evidence and is rife with holes and assumptions. More surveys or evidences are required to a increased funding.

To begin with, the author implies that the Brim River between Palea and Lithos is wide and deep, thus Palean could not cross the river without boat. However, in archaeology, one must consider all the circumstances in a prehistorical situation. To strengthen the author's argument, he/she need to investigate how the river was like during Palean's time. It is quite likely that the Brim River was newly born at that time, therefore is easy for Palean and Brim to walk or swim across the river.

What's more, given the Brim River was indeed deep and broad, the arthor's argument that Palean were not able to cross it because no boat was found is still not concrete. Archaeologists are making new discoveries on a daily basis, and may find a Palean boat in the future, so no one can say for sure if people in Palea had the ability to cross the river at that time.

Lastly, the author concluded that the woven baskets with Palean characteristics found in Lithos must originated there, for his/her aforementioned evidences preclude any possibility of Palean transporting baskets to Lithos. However, more investigation on the Lithos is needed to demonstrate this conclusion. Although it may be true that Palean couldn't cross the Brim River, but we did not know if it was people in Lithos, who somehow have the ability to built boats, played the role of communication between these two places across the river and brought Palean baskets back to their own village. Without this confirmed, the conclusion is not persuasive at all.

A woven basket found in Lithos is quite likely to show that it is not unique to Palea, but the arguments provided by the author here are clearly not enough to reach such a conclusion, and deeper and more thorough exploration is required to get a scienfitic and accurate conclusion.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 226, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...re surveys or evidences are required to a increased funding. To begin with, th...
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Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...historical situation. To strengthen the authors argument, he/she need to investigate ho...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: What's
...im to walk or swim across the river. Whats more, given the Brim River was indeed d...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...on. Although it may be true that Palean couldnt cross the Brim River, but we did not kn...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, such as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 350.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88571428571 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67744014205 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.531428571429 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.782239852 57.8364921388 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.538461538 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9230769231 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 5.70786347227 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.117829894044 0.218282227539 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0429648798094 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0296687590278 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0656794675261 0.128457276422 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326794196847 0.0628817314937 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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