The passage explains three major theories on the purpose of building Chaco structures, great houses with hundreds of rooms made up of stone. According to the lecture, the theories explained in the passage are not convincing.
First of all, the passage explains the first theory which is based on the fact that the Chaco structures were solely used for residential purposes. However, the lecturer contends that the inside of the houses cast doubt on this theory. The professor states that the houses had only few fireplaces and if the houses were used solely for the residential purpose, they had to have more fireplaces facilitating daily cooking by each family. Also, the houses did not have enough rooms as well.
The second theory about Chaco structures maintains that the large size of Chaco structures makes them suitable for grain-maize storage which is stored to supply people’s food for a long period of time. The lecturer, On the other hand, believes that the houses were not used for the purpose of storing food supplies such as grain-maize since there wشس no trace of maize or maize containers in them.
The third theory contends that the major usage of the houses was for holding ceremonies since the excavation of the mound existed in a house named Pueblo Alto has led to finding a lot of pots which are believed to be used in ceremonies. On the contrary, the lecturer believes that there are a lot of other materials found beside the pots such as building materials which are useless materials left over. The lecture also points out that the pots were regular trash of meals used by construction workers. To conclude, the lecture opposes each theory by explaining extra information.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 192, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...to supply people's food for a long period of time. The lecturer, On the other hand, belie...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... maize or maize containers in them. The third theory contends that the major us...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ory by explaining extra information.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, third, well, as for, such as, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1432.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98954703833 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54264219254 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519163763066 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.2868266992 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.333333333 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.66666666667 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.436513622948 0.272083759551 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146415924641 0.0996497079465 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093095574276 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24970028054 0.162205337803 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0755009476596 0.0443174109184 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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