Both lecture and passage discuss the carved stone balls which are found in the Scotland. The age of the carved stones is 4000 years old. The uniform shape of various stone about 70 mm in diameter. According to the passage, not found a specific purpose behind the carved stone but the author presents three theory behind the carved stone such as hunting, weight for grains and social status. Whereas, In the lecture, the professor refute the each theory of the reading passage.
Firstly, the author claims that carved stone ball use as hunting, fight and weapons. On the contrary, the lecturer mentions that human being aware of the ancient people hunting such as the arrow. Stone surface of the curved stone ball are very precise, not any damage, if the people were using this hunting purpose then damage the surface of the ball but here, not any ball has the rough surface.
Secondly, the passage implies that uniform size of the balls was used in the weights and measures such as grains and various foods. However, the speaker explains that weight is different of uniform size of carved stone ball. All ball size 70 mm in diameter but the weight of each ball is the different because of the balls made by the variety of the stone material such as quartz stone and sandstone. Therefore, it was not used for weight purposes.
Lastly, the reading passage emphasizes that ball were the substantial role in the social status of the owner. In contrast, the professor points out that carved balls were made the various design in which some were made extremely simple and some were made the intrigues pattern. Besides, if the carved stone ball very precious for the owner then why any stone found in the grave because of buried time person all precious element put in the grave but no any stone found in the graves.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 340, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
... stone ball very precious for the owner then why any stone found in the grave becaus...
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Line 4, column 450, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...l precious element put in the grave but no any stone found in the graves.
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, whereas, in contrast, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1498.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 317.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72555205047 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12431467402 2.5805825403 82% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447949526814 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.0 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6865801564 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.8666666667 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1333333333 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.06666666667 7.06452816374 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.486145806643 0.272083759551 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.183927496506 0.0996497079465 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870285986268 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.325211359065 0.162205337803 200% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0343792055144 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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