stone balls

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stone balls

The reading indicates that stone balls have been formed in round shape for several purposes and it lists three factors supporting these theories. However, the speaker finds all the ideas dubious and presents some evidence to refute all three factors.

First, the author argues that they were used as weapons for hunting or fighting. due to the holes and some grooves at the surface of them. In contrast, the speaker debuts this idea by standing that arrows were used as the weapons too, and very well carved of the stone balls does not damage to use for fighting or hunting.

Second, the reading passage points out that those stones balls were used as a rudimentary system of weights to measure how much the weights of the grains and other foods are. On the contrary, the speaker casts doubt on this fact and contends that the size of them may be the same but because of the different density among sands, grains and court sites, their weights are various. Consequently, two ball stones with the same size have different wights. Due to this reason, the speakers reject this theory.

Last but not least, the author proposes that they have another different utility. its skillful design was marked by the social status of their owners. On the other hand, the speaker dismisses this reason too and asserts that some balls have a statistic symbol, hence when the high-ranking people died they buried with their possessions. In other words, no ball found in tombs or graves.

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Average: 7.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 82, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Due
...sed as weapons for hunting or fighting. due to the holes and some grooves at the su...
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Line 7, column 83, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Its
...at they have another different utility. its skillful design was marked by the socia...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, well, in contrast, in other words, 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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => 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: 1223.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.83399209486 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.19117829546 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592885375494 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 355.5 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.6166081363 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0769230769 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4615384615 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1538461538 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.274337742687 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.096165095242 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116030454349 0.0662205650399 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161223469898 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0410516808043 0.0443174109184 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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