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, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
According to the author, earlier, Palean baskets were found only in the vicinities of Palea village. But recently, as archaeologists have found a Palean basket in a village called Lithos, the author thinks that Palean basket cannot be unique to Palean; based on the fact that Paleans never had a boat to cross the Brim River to reach Lithos.
First, the author states that only one Palean basket was found in Lithos. But, if Palean baskets were used by the people of Lithos as well, then the archaeologists would have found more than one basket. As there is only basket found in the Lithos village, it is totally possible that this basket might have belonged to Palean people and through some way it might have got into the hands of Lithos’ people. For instance, the basket might have fell into the river and the river currents might have carried the basket to the bank of Lithos. For this reason, if the archaeologists could find more number of Palean baskets in the Lithos village, it would strengthen the argument.
Second, it could be easily understood from the argument that the author perceives Brim River as an obstacle that had prevented the people from Palea village and Lithos village to interact. In effect, he thinks that the Palean basket found in Lithos doesn’t belong to the Palean village. But, no evidence of whether or not the river existed or the condition of the river during the time of Palean people has been provided. For instance, the river might have been dry for some time period during which people from either of the villages could have travelled to others’ village during which the basket might have got into the Lithos village. Hence, if evidence could be provided that during the time of Palean people, Brim River more or less used to be as deep and as broad as it is now, it would strengthen the argument.
Lastly, the author posited that Paleans wouldn’t have crossed the river because no boats were found. Before a Palean basket was found in Lithos, it was believed that Palean baskets were uniquely Palean. But, later as a Palean basket was found in Lithos, this raised a question of whether the baskets are uniquely Palean. Similarly, if in future some archaeologist claims the existence of a Palean boat, it would totally disrupt the argument.
Considering all the aforementioned reasons, the argument doesn’t provide enough evidence to justify the given conclusion in the argument. Hence, the argument is inherently flawed and the author needs to provide more evidence.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 313, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...the Palean village. But, no evidence of whether or not the river existed or the condition of t...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'hence', 'if', 'lastly', 'second', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'for instance', 'more or less']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.267748478702 0.25644967241 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.170385395538 0.15541462614 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0365111561866 0.0836205057962 44% => Some adjectives wanted.
Adverbs: 0.0425963488844 0.0520304965353 82% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0182555780933 0.0272364105082 67% => OK
Prepositions: 0.131845841785 0.125424944231 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0567951318458 0.0416121511921 136% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.48926821063 2.79052419416 89% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0243407707911 0.026700313972 91% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.123732251521 0.113004496875 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0304259634888 0.0255425247493 119% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00608519269777 0.0127820249294 48% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2538.0 2731.13054187 93% => OK
No of words: 429.0 446.07635468 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.91608391608 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.386946386946 0.378187486979 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.230769230769 0.287650121315 80% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.132867132867 0.208842608468 64% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0792540792541 0.135150697306 59% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48926821063 2.79052419416 89% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 207.018472906 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.384615384615 0.469332199767 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 41.4087454518 52.1807786196 79% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 23.8333333333 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5249501628 57.7814097925 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.0 141.986410481 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 46.9102564103 51.9672348444 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.97368421053 1.8405768891 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.454169489672 0.441005458295 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.210766454009 0.135418324435 156% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.10122222321 0.0829849096947 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.659746846683 0.58762219726 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.121025991794 0.147661913831 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.229861348886 0.193483328276 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699470069485 0.0970749176394 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.480505393692 0.42659136922 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.170790913355 0.0774707102158 220% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.323215339221 0.312017818177 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0652157227825 0.0698173142475 93% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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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Note: This is not the final score. 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.