The lecturer disputes the author's suggestions about the purpose of the carved stone balls that were discovered in different places in Scotland. He casts doubt about the author's claims by providing several reasons to support his arguments.
First, the lecturer does not agree with the first point made in the reading that carved stone balls were used as weapons to hunt animals. He contends the the absence of tears or wears excludes the possibility that these balls were used to serve this purpose. In other words, with their preserved shape, it is very unlikely that they have been used as weapons.
Second, the author suggests that the carved stone balls may have been used as a scale to measure different weight because of their identical sizes. However, the lecturer finds this idea debatable. He states that because the balls are made of different material, they might have different weights. Thus, theoretically speaking, a person cannot rely on them to weight different objects
Finally, according to the author the carved balls may have been used to mark the social status of the owners. Again, the lecturer disputes the author's claims by stating that archaeologists discovered different designs of these balls, some have unique patterns, others have simpler patterns. Thus, such a variation in patterns will not reflect the social status of the owner.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...as weapons to hunt animals. He contends the the absence of tears or wears excludes the ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...as weapons to hunt animals. He contends the the absence of tears or wears excludes the ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, thus, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => 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: 1148.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17117117117 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43376673447 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540540540541 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 344.7 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9698829446 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.363636364 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1818181818 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.404362055561 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155147600904 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109225940515 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24961255176 0.162205337803 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457020785436 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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