The reading passage talks about massive stone buildings, “great houses” of Chaco Canyon settlements from twelfth century AD in New Mexico and discusses three main potential ways these builders were used for by providing corresponding evidence. However, the professor claims these evidences are quite insufficient and unsupportive.
To begin with, the author suggests that these “great houses” were used as residential places for many people. The professor refutes this proposal by mentioning that although the buildings resembled modern apartments from outsides, the insides of these are not supportive of this. He goes on to say that the buildings contained only few fire places which helped people cook while the large number of rooms suggested many more families which creates a serious discrepancy.
Secondly, the professor casts doubt on the claim that these were used as grain maize storage units as mentioned in the article. He explains this by highlighting that excavations have not revealed any traces of maize or maize containers which was very highly unlikely if at all any maize were stored.
Finally, the article brings up that evidence of broken pots near the one of these great houses, Pueblo Alto suggests that these were used as ceremonial centres. On the contrary, the professor expresses disapproval to this idea. Further, he states that not only broken pots but lot of the things like building material remains like sand, stone and construction equipment were also found which implies that this was used a trash sink in general for all kinds of things.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 131, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ge units as mentioned in the article. He explains this by highlighting that excav...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, in general, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1352.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 252.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36507936508 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71522540125 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626984126984 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 414.0 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4986086788 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.2 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219306171379 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0779997210302 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977727032608 0.0662205650399 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136310246946 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.091229920064 0.0443174109184 206% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => 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: 14.16 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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