In some countries, more and more people are becoming interested in finding out about the history of the house or building they live in. What are the reasons for it? How can people research it?
In several countries, investigating the history of houses is becoming an uprising trend. This essay will discuss the motivations under this activity and what methods can apply to its process.
There are different reasons why people would like to know more about the building they live in, and curiosity is one the most commons. Many houses, especially those dated back to previous centuries, have surprising features like hidden storage or a secret door. For instance, shelters during World War 1 usually had an underground basement, which served as a hiding spot from military attacks. Another example is the castles with secret passages designed to enable the inhabitants to escape from their enemies. These unexpected details can attract the attention and curiosity of the owners, so they want to discover the historical background of the place they live.
An additional motive to this trend is a treasure hunt. Some people research their houses with the hope to find out something worthy since antiques might be sell for a high price for their historical value. It can be a stamp collection, the first print of a book, or vintage jewelry. Sometimes, even when the treasure hunt does not pay off, the owner can still gain some attention from its story on social media.
There are different methods to do research and the difficulties widely vary depending on which building is involved. People can try to ask the elders in their family, or they can study the inheritance documents. They can search online, too. This process can be extremely time-consuming without a warrantee for any result, yet many families find it fun and interesting.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, so, still, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1374.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 271.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07011070111 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66615827364 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.653136531365 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.9302552631 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.6 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0666666667 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.26666666667 7.06120827912 32% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319802824983 0.244688304435 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841757275688 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0781306270141 0.0667982634062 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161429844696 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0309387729428 0.056905535591 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.0946893788 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.83 12.4159519038 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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