As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeo

The professor in the lecture does not agree with the possible theories provided in the passage regarding the usage of massive stone buildings in Chaco Canyon, Mexico, in the twelfth century AD. The author has given the three potential utility of these large buildings, he posits that these building could have been used either of these three purposes such as for residential use, for the place to store the Maize, and the third is the use of houses as a ceremonial center. The lecture gives proper explanation to refute these supposed usages of the houses.

Firstly, the professor does not agree with the concept that these houses were used as a residential place, and hundreds of people lived. Since the article claims that it these have so much space to incorporate many families similarly like the present time apartment buildings in Taos, New Mexico. However, lecture claims that from outside there are chances that it'll look like that these houses were used for the living purposes, but to feed this enormous amount of people they needed fire to prepare the food. To meet this requirement, it requires many fireplaces, but only a few have been found. The estimation is that food could be made only for around ten people from each fireplace. The professor claims, citing above evidence, that those building could not have been used for the residence.

The socond theory that these houses could have been used to store food supplies such as Maize. The professor in the lecture doesn't support this theory stating that there are not many pieces of evidence found in the excavation. He gives the example of the remains of the maize grains. He says that if these places were used to store the food supply, there must be remains of these grains would have been found, which were rare in the excavation. The second example he gives that to store the food supply it must require large vessels which weren't found in the excavation — illustrating the above reasoning the lecturer unsubstantiated the possible usage of these houses as a store.

Finally, the lecture dismisses the theory that posits the usage of these houses as ceremonial centers. The reading claims that in excavations, a large number of broken pots has been found which depicts that people gathered at Pueblo Alto for the special occasion. Nonetheless, lecture posits that besides the pots, there are lots of other materials have been found which include sand, stone, building tools which prove that these buildings were not used for the ceremony.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, look, nonetheless, regarding, second, similarly, so, third, as for, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 22.412803532 192% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2063.0 1373.03311258 150% => OK
No of words: 416.0 270.72406181 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95913461538 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31060388241 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466346153846 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 648.9 419.366225166 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 92.7762766013 49.2860985944 188% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.9375 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.375 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.095382437831 0.272083759551 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0314135256974 0.0996497079465 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0399654977392 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0714551378861 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487274822901 0.0443174109184 110% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => 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: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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