Passage and lecture are both about carved stone balls, and authors do not agree about their provenience. On the one hand, the writer presents three possible theories that might explain stones' utility. On the other hand, the speaker casts doubts on the claims made by the writer, arguing that these theories are not convincing when compared to reality.
First, weapons have marks such as cracks or broken parts. Whereas, the carved stone are very well conserved and uniform, which is a sign that they were not used in fights or hunting actions. Thus, since stones have no visible damages, this is strong counter-argument that contradicts the passage.
Second, the masses of stone differ significantly, which show that they cannot represent standard units of measures. The writer affirms that because of their size, the stones could have been used as a scale for measuring quantities of grains or food. However, the speaker refutes this theory, asserting that the carved stones are made from distinct materials, and as a consequence some are heavier, other are lighter. Therefore, this second argument is a viable standpoint against author's point of view.
Third, objects indicating the status of an important individual, are usually buried with the owner. The author sustains the theory of social status because some of stones have complicated designs. Anyway, the speaker underlines that only a part of them have elaborated designs, and that the others are pretty simple. So, it is impossible to affirm that stones were more than personal objects. In conclusion, the author and the speaker seem to be in total disagreement regarding this topic.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ndpoint against authors point of view. Third, objects indicating the status of ...
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Line 7, column 157, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'some of', you should use 'the' ('some of the stones') or simply say ''some stones''.
Suggestion: some of the stones; some stones
...ins the theory of social status because some of stones have complicated designs. Anyway, the s...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, first, however, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, third, thus, well, whereas, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1390.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22556390977 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56497894053 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612781954887 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 418.5 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.4198630356 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.6666666667 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7333333333 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.73333333333 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378659721889 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117544991121 0.0996497079465 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072459089927 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221866837662 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450311438172 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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