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Both the reading and lecture are about clay jars which have been discovered by villagers in Iraq. Since these vessels include a copper cylinder surrounding an iron pod; hence, it has been believed that the mentioned containers were ancient electric batteries. The reading provides three reasons to refute this suggestion and then supports them. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article and finds all arguments unconvincing.
First of all, the author of reading contends that using battery needs to attach to metal wires; however, any electricity conductors did not find near the vessels or the discovery location. This point is challenged by the professor. She points out that we know that clay jars were excavated and obtained by local people, so since ordinary people do not have enough knowledge or train about archaeological materials and they fail to recognize which type of material is important or not; therefore, they may have thrown some stuff in that time.
Secondly, the article declares that copper cylinders inside clay jars looked like to Seleucia's copper cylinder. Based on previous information, scientists know that Seleucia's copper cylinders were used for holding scrolls of sacred texts. Since these copper cylinders are at the same shape, so they could have had the same purpose; in the contrast, the professor claims that copper cylinders may have designed for the scrolls in the early centuries; however, their function may have changed later; consequently, people adapted to use them as producing electricity.
Finally, the reading passage states that even if we accept the aforementioned idea, a battery would have not been useful in ancient periods. This argument is rebutted by the lecturer and she poses that surprisingly leaders could use these batteries as showing their magic power because when people were touching such a clay jar, it could enter a shock to them. Meanwhile, ancient doctors may have employed the batteries as healing and treating. At the end,They could remove the pains of joints.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 456, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , They
...ries as healing and treating. At the end,They could remove the pains of joints.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1730.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 329.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25835866261 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61427509487 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586626139818 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.7487583438 49.2860985944 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.571428571 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.85714285714 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.487964593936 0.272083759551 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142471307623 0.0996497079465 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0999374250361 0.0662205650399 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273350641763 0.162205337803 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622151345927 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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