Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archa

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Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.

The argument make a number of unwarranted assumption and lacks clear evidence as to how "Palean" baskets are not unique to Palean community. Taken as a whole, this lack of evidence render the argument highly suspect. Indeed, if these unstated evidences do not show true, the argument can be taken apart.

The argument assumes that the mere presence of the Brim River and the absence of boats as the single most deciding factor. However, no specific geographical evidence of the river of prehistoric time is given. It could be the case where the Brim river didn't even exist, or some natural calamity might have altered the dimensions of it. Untill and unless we don't know the status of river at the time of Palean community we can't consider the effect it may have had on the baskets.

The argument furthur assumes that the mere absence of boats denotes no other way to transfer goods across the river. Palean people might not have the knowledge of boats and they may have used logs to transfer basket for trade. Furthermore, a temporary bridge might be in place at the prihistoric time. Unless, we know specifically that there were no other way of transport present between the two cities we can't surely say that there was no connection between the villages.

lastly, geographical changes are quite common to take place . No account has been given wether there was some natural calamity, which made people of Plean to leave and settle into nearby regions, thus the presence of similar baskets in Lithos were present. Author, must provide a account showing wether there was no transfer of people from Palean to Lithos.

The argument lacks on the evidences that seriously undermines its validity. Unless more evidence is given, the argument falls apart, and "Palean" basket could actually be unique to Palean community.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 14, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'makes'.
Suggestion: makes
The argument make a number of unwarranted assumption and ...
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Line 3, column 252, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... could be the case where the Brim river didnt even exist, or some natural calamity mi...
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Line 3, column 357, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... dimensions of it. Untill and unless we dont know the status of river at the time of...
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Line 3, column 422, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...iver at the time of Palean community we cant consider the effect it may have had on ...
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Line 5, column 303, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Unless” 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.
...ht be in place at the prihistoric time. Unless, we know specifically that there were n...
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Line 5, column 408, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...sport present between the two cities we cant surely say that there was no connection...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Lastly
...no connection between the villages. lastly, geographical changes are quite common ...
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...l changes are quite common to take place . No account has been given wether there ...
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Line 7, column 279, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...thos were present. Author, must provide a account showing wether there was no tra...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'lastly', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'as to']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.264367816092 0.25644967241 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.152298850575 0.15541462614 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0804597701149 0.0836205057962 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.051724137931 0.0520304965353 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0258620689655 0.0272364105082 95% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10632183908 0.125424944231 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0287356321839 0.0416121511921 69% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.6434613528 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0229885057471 0.026700313972 86% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.117816091954 0.113004496875 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0258620689655 0.0255425247493 101% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0114942528736 0.0127820249294 90% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1846.0 2731.13054187 68% => OK
No of words: 308.0 446.07635468 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.99350649351 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.57801047555 92% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.37987012987 0.378187486979 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.253246753247 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.168831168831 0.208842608468 81% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0811688311688 0.135150697306 60% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6434613528 2.79052419416 95% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 207.018472906 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542207792208 0.469332199767 116% => OK
Word variations: 56.45770385 52.1807786196 108% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 19.25 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.7200132761 57.7814097925 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.375 141.986410481 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 23.2022227129 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5625 0.724660767414 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 3.58251231527 251% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 44.5746753247 51.9672348444 86% => OK
Elegance: 1.7375 1.8405768891 94% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.379023515893 0.441005458295 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.107091733799 0.135418324435 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0861322667128 0.0829849096947 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.605761724801 0.58762219726 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148247487936 0.147661913831 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15671811811 0.193483328276 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0750013373234 0.0970749176394 77% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.301122877441 0.42659136922 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.159057454302 0.0774707102158 205% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22916125037 0.312017818177 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0683546455029 0.0698173142475 98% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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