The reading specifies that there are three theories which shows the purpose of carved stone balls. However, the lecture casts doubt on this theories and brings up three specific reasons to reject the points made in the reading passage.
First, the author asserts that these stone balls may be used as weapons because there are some holes in them. On the other hand, the lecture assets that many stones have cracks and holes in them, and they are not a convincing signs showing that these stone balls have been a kind of weapon.
Second, based on the reading, it is possible that the stone balls have been a part of primitive weighting system. On the contrary, the lecture contradicts this claim, reasoning that these stone balls may be uniform in size, but they are not uniform in weight. In fact, the stones were made of different type of stones such as sand stone and ground stone, and some of them are heavier than the others.
Third, based on the reading, the stone balls might serve a social purpose. Nonetheless, the professor challenges this idea by explaining that it is unlikely that the stones served social purpose in view of the fact that many of the designs are simple. Moreover, when wealthy people died, they buried their possessions with them, but no stone ball has been found in their toms.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 136, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ls. However, the lecture casts doubt on this theories and brings up three specific r...
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Line 3, column 207, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: uniform
...reasoning that these stone balls may be uniform in size, but they are not uniform in weight. In...
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Line 3, column 241, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: uniform
...ay be uniform in size, but they are not uniform in weight. In fact, the stones were made of diffe...
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Line 4, column 377, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tone ball has been found in their toms.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, moreover, nonetheless, second, so, third, in fact, kind of, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1084.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73362445415 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15371072791 2.5805825403 83% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541484716157 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 322.2 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.4650599872 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.4 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.3 7.06452816374 188% => 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 : 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: 0.222140392493 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0919597982226 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0512686168053 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132223667978 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.055204175066 0.0443174109184 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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