The article and the lecture are both about massive, archaic stone buildings which are located Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The author of the article explains three main theories about these structures’ usage. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that none of the author’s claims are well supported.
First, the author points out that the buildings were used as residential. It is mentioned that these buildings looks like “apartment buildings” at Taso which was contructed by more recent Southwest societies. The points are challenged by the lecturer. He says that outside of the buildings look similar, but, inside cast serious doubt on the theory. Furthermore, he argues that if primary usage of the building were be residential, there would have been more fireplaces. However, there are only a few fireplaces.
Second, the author contends that Chaco structures were just big cellar. The article notes that grain maize was the main harvest of the Chaco people, and this harvest could be stored for long time. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggested that this theory is unsupported by evidence. He elaborates on this by mentioning that excavations which did not uncover maize residuals and big containers.
Third, the author states that the buildings were used as ceremonial centers. The article establishes that excavations unearthed numerous broken pots. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that this theory is not well supported. According to professor, excavation area contains a lot of stuff such as sand, stone and other meterials. He states that pots could be just a regular thrash.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 214, 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.
...ies about these structures' usage. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Line 3, column 422, Rule ID: WERE_VBB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'where' or 'we'?
Suggestion: where; we
...s that if primary usage of the building were be residential, there would have been m...
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Line 3, column 427, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...t if primary usage of the building were be residential, there would have been more...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, so, third, well, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31060606061 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83543917853 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568181818182 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 421.2 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => 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: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.3305126894 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 70.1 110.228320801 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.2 21.698381199 61% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 7.06452816374 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267314489106 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0710849804769 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0584294894972 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153363430036 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0430391205707 0.0443174109184 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.63 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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