TPO 33

Essay topics:

TPO 33

The reading and the passage are both about the propose and meaning of the use of carved stone balls in Scotland. The author of the reading feels that there are three theories that might help to explain the use of this balls. The lecture challenges the claims made by the author. For her, these theories are faulty.

To begin with, the author says that this balls have being using as weapons for hunting and also fighting. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. The professor says that these balls during the neolithic periods showed signs of ware and if they were used as weapons they should had cracked by the surface of this carved stone balls were found without any damage.

Second, the author mentions that this object was used as a primitive system of weights and measures. In the article, the author also talks about that carved stone balls were used as standard weights to calculate quantities of food or any type of thing that needed to be measured. The professor, however, challenged this point of view by saying that it could not be used as a standard system of weight and measures because these balls were made using diverse kind of stones that have a different density. She also mentions that sandstones, grey stones were use as materials, and even if these balls had the same size, the weight was different.

Third, the author posits that the people who had important social status during the neolithic period might had used this object to mark their importance in society. In contrast, the lecture mentions that this idea is inconsistent because any kind of balls have been found inside the tumulus of people that had prestigious in society during the Neolithic period.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 44, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... reading and the passage are both about the propose and meaning of the use of carved stone ...
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Line 1, column 214, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...s that might help to explain the use of this balls. The lecture challenges the claim...
^^^^
Line 1, column 226, 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.
... help to explain the use of this balls. The lecture challenges the claims made by t...
^^^
Line 13, column 84, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o had important social status during the neolithic period might had used this obj...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, second, so, third, in contrast, kind of, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1413.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83904109589 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26084208302 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472602739726 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 423.9 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
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: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.9953922016 49.2860985944 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.692307692 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4615384615 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61538461538 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.404129976227 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150848359716 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10818781688 0.0662205650399 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254400192486 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100117052315 0.0443174109184 226% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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