first grain-based food
The reading passage and the lecture are both about the evolution of first grain-based food. The author of the reading believes that it took three discoveries to reach modern bread. However, the lecturer refutes the arguments made in the article. She claims that beer was the first and the easier way as an ancestor for the modern bread.
First of all, the author holds that ancient people consumed raw wheat seeds. Since raw seeds are very hard, they discovered that grinding it between two stones made it easier to eat. Nevertheless, the lecturer points out that letting the seeds just sit without grinding is the more plausible and basically effortless to get a palatable softer seeds. She further elaborates that by keeping seeds in a moist environment, they would naturally start sprouting and the new baby plant would split the hard seed case making it sweeter, softer and even more nutritious. On the other hand, crushing was a new idea to humans and it needed someone to discover it.
Second, the author assumes that baking the ground seeds allowed early humans to store them for a much longer period of time. The lecturer casts doubt on this idea. She explains that the relationship between fire and food was not obvious for people yet and someone would have to think to put food on fire to improve it for eating and that's a complex process.
Lastly, the article proposes that the addition of yeast spores came as the final step when people left the ground paste in the open air, the spores from the air began fermenting wheat producing bubbles which made bread lighter in texture and easy to eat. On the contrary, the lecturer asserts that having a ground paste and leaving it in the open air was not a necessary step. She indicates that as soon as the sprouted grains were stored, fermentation happens and bubbles and foam produced which gave rise to the first beer.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 110, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... humans to store them for a much longer period of time. The lecturer casts doubt on this idea....
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Line 11, column 230, Rule ID: OBVIOUS_FOR[1]
Message: The adjective obvious is normally used with 'to': 'obvious to people'.
Suggestion: obvious to people
...ationship between fire and food was not obvious for people yet and someone would have to think to ...
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Line 11, column 334, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...od on fire to improve it for eating and thats a complex process. Lastly, the art...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, lastly, nevertheless, second, so, 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 : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1568.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 327.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79510703364 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30032443052 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556574923547 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.698603873 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.533333333 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53333333333 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.17608411612 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611758755128 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126996782688 0.0662205650399 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108390238225 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0947945768672 0.0443174109184 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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