The passage and the lecturer discuss the main purpose of a specific ancient buildings, Chaco Canyon settlements. The passage suggests that the buildings were used for either residential or grain storation or ceremonies. However, the speaker provides some evidences to refute those claims made by the author.
First, the lecturer states that although the buildings look like other antique apartments, the shape of the buildings in the inside does not support the idea that they were residential. It argues that number of the fireplaces are not proportional to the capacity of the building for peopl...
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Sentence: For instance, he reminds that that in a specific building there are few number of fireplaces adequate only for 10 families to live in.
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Sentence: The passage suggests that the buildings were used for either residential or grain storation or ceremonies.
Error: storation Suggestion: No alternate word
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Score: 26 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 14 12
No. of Words: 293 250
No. of Characters: 1424 1200
No. of Different Words: 129 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.137 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.86 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.51 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.227 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.389 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.17 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4