The reading and the lecture are both about the methods that ancient Egyptians could utilize to lift rocks during the building process of pyramids. The author of the reading feels that three possible ways might be used. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She believes that the three hypotheses made in the article have weaknesses. ]
To begin with, the author argues that Egyptians might use ramps to lift rocks and building materials. The article mentions that various ramps were possibly employed, such as straight, spiraling, and zigzagging ramps. The lecturer challenges this argument. She claims that ramps are not useful to lift rocks. Additionally, she says that ramps should be adjusted continuously. Moreover, zigzagging and spiraling ramps have safety issues.
Secondly, the writer suggests that Egyptians might use spiraling ramps inside the pyramids to lift rocks. The lecturer, however, refutes this by mentioning that there is no archaeological evidence. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that no one really knows how the pyramids look like from inside.
Finally, the author posits that limestone concrete might be one of the methods to build pyramids. Moreover, in the article, it is stated that soft limestone with muds was used to form rocks in pyramids. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that this hypothesis doesn't explain how the stones met at a perfect point at the top pyramids. She notes that this method is difficult to be applied in a harsh environment.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 220, 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.
...that three possible ways might be used. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Message: Unpaired symbol: '[' seems to be missing
...es made in the article have weaknesses. ] To begin with, the author argues tha...
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Message: Don't put a space before the closing parenthesis
Suggestion: ]
...es made in the article have weaknesses. ] To begin with, the author argues tha...
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Line 7, column 264, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...turers position is that this hypothesis doesnt explain how the stones met at a perfect...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, look, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22448979592 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65352203539 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542857142857 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 377.1 419.366225166 90% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.1759962011 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.2941176471 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.4117647059 21.698381199 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05882352941 7.06452816374 86% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169781460311 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0510703894327 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0550095686559 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103464903871 0.162205337803 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00952969910375 0.0443174109184 22% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => 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: 12.4 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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