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 explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence.
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
No Use for European Coins
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Silver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money
The article states that European silver coin discovered ar a Native American archeological site in the state of maine in the United State is fake that was certainly placed by someone to mislead the public and provides three reason in order to bolster. However, the speaker states that the evidence is genuine not fake and refutes each of the authors reasons.
Firstly, the passage states that, the coin have been found in Maine which is located very far from the other different sites where Norse used to presence as the remain of the Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. However the professor refutes this point by saying that the people used to bring not only the coins but also the other different object from far away places during travelling.
Secondly, the passage claims that, in the site where the Norse were used to live, other coins have not been found. In contrary, the speaker states that the people generally used to pack the valuable coin products and come to North America and during the returning time they used to took that coins along with them.
Thirdly, the passage states that, as experienced explorers,Norse would have understood that the silver coins are useless and the native North Americans didnot recognize the silver coins as money. But the professor refutes that point by stating that the North American people shows the interest toward the new and unusual objects. So, they mainly used these coins in there neclease and jewellary. They always considered the new and unusual objects as valuable things.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
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Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
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Line 11, column 59, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , Norse
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1308.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01149425287 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31225974282 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501915708812 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.9288487103 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.8 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.2 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.307632756631 0.272083759551 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120205740864 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085326307148 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193300044506 0.162205337803 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049169445139 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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Note: 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.