The reading talks about the great house building at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and provide three theories for how those houses were used to. The lecturer, on the other hand casts doubt on all claims mentioned in the article. He says that unfortunately, non of the arguments are convincing.
First of all, the article states that those houses were completely used for a residential issue because it is similar in the structure to well- known Taos's houses in New Mexico, which were inhabited by many people for a long time. However, the professor refuses this theory by mentioning that those houses could be similar from inside to native american buildings, but it is completely different from inside. He argues that if hundreds of people were living there, it could have a lot of fire places for daily cooking. Indeed, they found few fire places in each houses, it reaches ten fire places in some houses, that is why it could not have been residential.
Second, The writer states that this particular structure could have been used as a food storage or maize for example, because the big size of these houses support this theory. On contrary, the lecturer confirms that this theory is unsupported by evidence, and the reason is the excavation have not discovered any maize containers. Furthermore, if it really were used for food storage, why there was a lot of maize scattered on the floor.
Finally, The article suggests that those houses could have been used for ceremonies because excavations discovered some broken pots similar to the one in Pueblo Alto, which were used by people when gathered there. However, the professor says that this theory is not well supported because the excavation revealed construction material as well like sand, stones and building material. He puts forth the idea that those material it might be a trash that left over by the constructor of those houses, and that is why it could not have been for ceremonies.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 344, Rule ID: AS_ADJ_AS[1]
Message: Comparison is written "as well 'as'".
Suggestion: as
... revealed construction material as well like sand, stones and building material. He ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, really, second, so, well, for example, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1623.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90332326284 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51770231498 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510574018127 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 514.8 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.470070536 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.846153846 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4615384615 21.698381199 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.443951902903 0.272083759551 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150629868461 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101235964813 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271968074869 0.162205337803 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0284830301571 0.0443174109184 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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