The author in the passage claims that chaco canyon were, in ancient time, build for residential or grain shortage or ceremonial purpose and provide three reasons of support. The lecture, however, refutes the author claims and counter each of his reasons.
At first, because modern chaco houses, being used as apartment building, resemble to the older chaco canyon structure, the author claims that it was used solely for residential purpose. The professor, in contrast, cast doubts on author claims. He says that if it was used for residential purpose, then there should be many fire places but the evidence have that there were fewer fire place. In additional, it was found that there were only 10 fire places on such structure, but many rooms where an 100 people can make their domicile.
Second, the article posits that it were used for grain storage as the large building is suitable for storage purpose; however, the professor contends if it was used for storage, then the maize grains or pot for storing should be found on the site, but the probing at the site reveals that there were scare amount of maize or pots.
Third, reading claims that it was used as ceremonial center because the presence of broken pots. It is believed that those pots were used to serve a festive meals, and then discarded. The author opposes that point by saying along with the pots there were presence of other unknown debris, which were not used for festival purpose. Further more, it is believed that the broken pots were the pots discarded by the construction worker at the site.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 458, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d that there were only 10 fire places on such structure, but many rooms where an ...
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Line 5, column 252, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...storing should be found on the site, but the probing at the site reveals that the...
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Line 7, column 158, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'meal'?
Suggestion: meal
...those pots were used to serve a festive meals, and then discarded. The author opposes...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, in addition, in contrast, in short
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1310.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86988847584 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27322736156 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524163568773 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.4160201487 49.2860985944 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.090909091 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4545454545 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63636363636 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301930913531 0.272083759551 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113785063396 0.0996497079465 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706807022855 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188529417756 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.034872885611 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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