TPO 33
The reading and the lecture discuss different theories of a specific type of stone in ancient times. The reading provides three reasons for special use of them for hunting, measuring and social customs. However, from the lecture's view, the mentioned reasons are not strong enough to be persuasive. Therefore, she repudiates them all.
First, the author claims that the stone balls have been used for hunting or fighting because of some evidence like grooves on their surface. On the contrary, the lecturer posits that some hunting devices like arrows have had wear surfaces. This sign clearly shows their application as an instrument for fighting or hunting by ancient people. However, the stone balls don't have such characteristics on their surface. In other words, their surface had been well preserved without any cracks or wearing signs.
Second, the article states that the stone balls had some applications as measurement devices for weight. This claim is made based on their similar shape. The professor opposes this point by saying that the stone balls could not be used for measurement purposes. Since they were made from different kinds of stones. Each kind has a different density. Hence their masses are different however they have the same shape and size.
Finally, based on the reading's assertion the stone balls had social applications in the past. In contrast, the lecturer argues that because of two main reasons the stone balls were not applicable for special social purposes. The first reason is that, although some stone balls had intrigued patterns, many of them have had very simple shape. Moreover, dead people from high social ranking had special positions for their graves. Since there is not any evidence of stone balls in their graves; the use of them is not probable in this regard.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 367, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ncient people. However, the stone balls dont have such characteristics on their surf...
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Line 4, column 263, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...d not be used for measurement purposes. Since they were made from different kinds of ...
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Line 4, column 351, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...nes. Each kind has a different density. Hence their masses are different however they...
^^^^^
Line 6, column 23, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'readings'' or 'reading's'?
Suggestion: readings'; reading's
...ape and size. Finally, based on the readings assertion the stone balls had social ap...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, well, in contrast, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12121212121 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3922742555 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518518518519 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.3061830701 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 76.05 110.228320801 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.85 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.379529661207 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122737956137 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0900118408822 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237914864889 0.162205337803 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760809313223 0.0443174109184 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.82 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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