At a sale at a private home in California several years ago a man purchased a box of photographic negatives stored in envelopes

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At a sale at a private home in California several years ago, a man purchased a box of photographic negatives stored in envelopes

The negatives that were bought at a house sell in California is believed to be taken by a famous photographer of 1920s by the name of Ansel Adams. Eventhough, the passage brings three main reasons to support this claim, the professor opposses these claims by deeming them unconvincing.

First, the passage draws similiarities between the negatives in the envelope and the photographs taken by Ansel Adams. The negatives in these envelopes show a certain type of tree which are common in the works of Adams. The professor, though, rejects this claim by saying that the pine trees in negatives are among the most famous sites in Yosemite park where hundereds of thousands of people took photographs. This argument would hold water if the pine trees were from a random place.

Second, the handwritings on the negatives resemble the handwriting of Virginia Adams who was Ansel Adam's wife and it is known that she used to assist her husband in his craft. The text presents this idea as another reason that the negatives belonged to Mr. Adam. The professor opposes this idea, as well by suggesting that these handwritings have spelling errors which are unlikely since Ansel's wife grew up in the places where the negatives were taken. Due to the fact that she grew up in those areas, the possibility of her incorrectly spelling those places' names are highly unlikely.

Third, there are traces of fire incident in the photographs and since there was such an incident in the Adam's workshop is another reason that these belonged to Adam. According to the lecturer, fires were a usuall incident in that period because most of photographers used similiar technologies that resulted in fires. According to him this reason cannot be used to attribute the works to Adam, as well.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 205, 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
.... According to the lecturer, fires were a usuall incident in that period because ...
^
Line 7, column 246, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the photographers') or simply say ''most photographers''.
Suggestion: most of the photographers; most photographers
... usuall incident in that period because most of photographers used similiar technologies that resulte...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, third, well

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1476.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95302013423 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63159146456 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526845637584 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.4099654229 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.538461538 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9230769231 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 7.06452816374 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.104095594994 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423718387496 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051147521472 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0686275132193 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368504635404 0.0443174109184 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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