The reading and the lecture argue about the purpose of carved stone which is found in Scotland and dated around 4000 years ago. The writer of the reading states three explanation of the use of those stone balls. The professor, on the other hand, refutes all of the explanations provides in the passage. He states that none of the purposes which is claimed in the reading are convincing.
First of all, author of the reading claims that those stone balls were used as weapons in the Neolithic period since some balls surface had some holes and grooves. However, the lecturer disagrees with this point and argues that in the Neolithic period, people usually traced some war signs in their weapons. But there was no war sign in those balls which is found different locations in Scotland. As a result, this balls might not use as an instrument of hunting and fighting.
Secondly, the second states that stone balls were being used as the standard of scale. The author assumes this purpose because most of the ball's shapes were almost same. The professor disapproves this point by saying that unlike their similar shape, their weights were not exactly same. He also posits that those stone were made from different kind of stone which had various density. As a result, the weight of stone balls was varied. So those stone could not have the properties of being a part of weighting system.
Finally, the author contends that Carved stone balls were kept as an indication of social rank. He postulates this because of the elaborate designs of their surface. The audio section rebuts this. The professor claims that there was no such great design had on the surface of the ball. He furthermore says that Neolithic period people had the specific ranked sign which was absent in those balls. As a result, stone balls might not an individual personal status object.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 213, 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.
...nation of the use of those stone balls. The professor, on the other hand, refutes a...
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Line 1, column 255, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...e professor, on the other hand, refutes all of the explanations provides in the passage. H...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, kind of, as a result, first of all, 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 : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 319.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84326018809 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25765840025 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48275862069 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.1194093347 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.25 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.95 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.411002646455 0.272083759551 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136356406251 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0934245581316 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258514432721 0.162205337803 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0825923966875 0.0443174109184 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => 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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