Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Though, it may be true that Palean baskets have been found across the Brim river in ‘Lithos’, this itself is not a cogent argument that Palean baskets didn’t specifically belong to Palean people. If those were not uncommon among other non-Palean people then those baskets should have been widespread in far-off non-Palean regions and not just across the Brim River asking to be found and excavated by the archaeologists.
The other assumption takes into account the breadth and depth of the Brim river implying that it is not possible to cross it without a boat and hence the baskets couldn’t be taken along across the river by Palean people. A very logical point is being missed here that even in pre-historic times trade of goods and mobility of the masses existed. Even if the Paleans could not sail across the river due to their presumed inability to make boats, other non-Palean boat making tribes could have simply crossed the river into the Palean villages for barter trading.
The claim that Paleans could not construct boats, which is just based on mere archaeologists’ inability to find some, is extraordinary. It may be a case that just like hitherto the archaeologists were not being able to find Palean baskets in non Palean villages, they are not able to excavate Palean boats in Palean villages and it may be just a matter of time that they may start finding few.
To substantiate the claim that the so-called Palean baskets are not uniquely Palean, the archaeological teams must start looking for them in far flung non-Palean areas not just across a river no matter how deep or broad it is. The claim will further be strengthened if they are able to show that the number of artefacts found in the other non-Palean regions is also comparable to the quantity so far excavated in Palean villages suggesting that they were a commonplace thing and not just exclusive to Palean people.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 327 350
No. of Characters: 1547 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.252 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.731 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.534 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 62 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 41 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 36.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.404 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.485 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.723 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.202 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 197, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, look, may, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1599.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 325.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82126498129 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.470769230769 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 36.0 22.8473053892 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.5884709182 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.666666667 119.503703932 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.1111111111 23.324526521 155% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170881154644 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0848735134943 0.0743258471296 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557259567181 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120761336984 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0543536917046 0.0628817314937 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.8 14.3799401198 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.4 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 98.500998004 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.1389221557 147% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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