TPO 05 As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high.
The reading and lecture are both about houses of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The author of the reading believes that these structure building were used for three purposes. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the article, saying that his arguments are inaccurate compared to the facts.
First of all, the author points out that the building was a residential compound. The article notes that it can cater 100 of people and resembles the apartment building at Taos, Mexico. The point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the outside facade looks like native american apartment building, but the inside structure are doubtful he said that if this house can accommodate families it should have many fire places for daily cooking and preparation of meal. However, evidence show that few fireplace was installed in the house.
Secondly, the author contends that it can store food items. The articles establishes that it can store food item like maize which can be stored for longer period without spoiling. The lecture rebuts this argument. He suggests that there are many large empty rooms in the Chaco Canyon. He elaborates on this by mentioning that there are no evidence to support that maize were stored and no large container are seen upon excavation.
Finally, the author states that the building was used for ceremonial rites. The article depicts that in Pueblo Alto, upon digging many materials are exhumed such as broken pots and items that are used for meal preparation are seen. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that in mound Pueblo alto only consist of large construction materials which are sand, stone, building and construction materials, thus there is no possibility that ceremonial activities took place here. He puts forth the idea that the mound that is there came form the construction workers regular trash being thrown.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 500, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun fireplace seems to be countable; consider using: 'few fireplaces'.
Suggestion: few fireplaces
...on of meal. However, evidence show that few fireplace was installed in the house. Secondly...
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Line 5, column 74, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'establish'.
Suggestion: establish
...t it can store food items. The articles establishes that it can store food item like maize ...
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Line 7, column 534, Rule ID: FROM_FORM[4]
Message: Did you mean 'from'?
Suggestion: from
... idea that the mound that is there came form the construction workers regular trash ...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, thus, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1574.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07741935484 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44390979974 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561290322581 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 489.6 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.2232886952 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5882352941 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2352941176 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11764705882 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.302276056086 0.272083759551 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855171926052 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552612471051 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168932750466 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0238222416721 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.