In the passage, the coin found at a Native American archaeological site in Maine is not a genuine historical evidence for three reasons. On the contrary, the speaker thinks it is not a fake and casts doubts on these reasons.
To begin with, according to the author, the distance is too long to travel for Norse who lived one thousand years ago. But the speaker points out that it is reasonable to travel between the site and the Norse settlements for people have found many other objects. As a result, the natives could possibly travel to the Norse settlements and then brought the silver coin back to Maine.
Then, without any other coins have been found, the author asserts that Norse did not bring any coins, however, this is also opposed by the speaker. She then argues that they pack up all the valuable possession including silver coins and came back to European because they don't live in the site as a settlement. Therefore, it accounts for why there is no other coins have been found.
Moreover, the speaker disagrees with the claim that silver coins are useless for native North Americans. While they may not use silver coins as we use today, these coins are appealing to them for they are beautiful as the professor says. So Norse could trade with them who may use them as jewelries.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 289, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...other objects. As a result, the natives could possibly travel to the Norse settlements and the...
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Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... and came back to European because they dont live in the site as a settlement. There...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, while, as a result, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1076.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69868995633 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35024576488 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554585152838 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 329.4 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => 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: 30.9082887596 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8181818182 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8181818182 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.497977795153 0.272083759551 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.191920806143 0.0996497079465 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829017449476 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.296000124217 0.162205337803 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301377608063 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 63.6247240618 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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