In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explor

The author in the passage discusses about how a silver coin dating to eleventh century was discovered and the possible reasons why some archaeologists believed that coin is not a genuine historical evidence. The three prominent reasons are stated in the passage to support the theory. However, the speaker refutes these reasons by giving arguments and explanations.
The speaker says that many archaeologists believed that coin was not a fake historical evidence. They believe that Native Americans came in contact with Norse because several other Norse objects have been found in the Maine not just coins. Whereas ,the passage only states that there is great distance between Maine and the Norse settlement in North America. The speaker argues that Native American could have traveled and reached to the Norse settlements and brought back some coins or a coin to Maine archaeological site. He also states that Norse did not had any permanent settlement in North America. They might have packed up their silver coins back when they returned to their land. So, speaker states that finding no other coins does not mean that Norse didn't bring any coins to North America which is stated in the passage otherwise. Finally, the speaker believes that Native Americans valued attractive objects like jwellery and could have traded silver coins for other objects.
Thus, the speaker disregards the possible factors that stated that coin was a fake historical evidence.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...d in the Maine not just coins. Whereas ,the passage only states that there is g...
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...s ,the passage only states that there is great distance between Maine and the Nor...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...American could have traveled and reached to the Norse settlements and brought bac...
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Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
...site. He also states that Norse did not had any permanent settlement in North Ameri...
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Suggestion: didn't
...no other coins does not mean that Norse didnt bring any coins to North America which ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, so, thus, well, whereas

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1227.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22127659574 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4910014603 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.51914893617 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => 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: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9335385359 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.25 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5833333333 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.91666666667 7.06452816374 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336512271666 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125260243393 0.0996497079465 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700716305144 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198777026248 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.075545721508 0.0443174109184 170% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

Don't need a conclusion paragraph.

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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