The author expresses three functions of the Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico in the American Southwest, including residential place, food storage place and a place for holding ceremonial events. The professor, on the other hand refutes all these three functions by providing the following statements.
First of all, huge number of rooms of the Chaco Canyon, were not as a proof of its residential function. According to the lecture, although from outside the Chaco Canyon looks like a Native American apartments, well-knows as 'apartment buildings', from inside, there are not as much as fireplaces suitable for housing hundreds of residents. In some floors, there are only 10 fireplaces which can serve 10 families not hundreds. Therefore, how this huge number of people can cook in the Chaco Canyon without enough fireplaces.
Secondly, author claims that the Chaco Canyon might use for grain maize storage. This hypothesis is also refused by the professor, mentioning that there is not any traces of grain maize in the Chaco Canyon building. Even, storage containers are not found in the Chaco Canyon structure. Hence, this function of the Chaco Canyon is also rebutted by the professor.
Finally, professor states that the Chaco Canyon cannot be used for ceremonial events, the function which is mentioned in the text. The reason, professor raised is that besides broken pots which were found in the deposits of the mound, there are other materials too. These include construction materials, such as stones and sands and the broken pots might be from the construction workers who threw away their pots when they finished their food. Therefore, deposits of broken pots cannot be the firm evidence of holding a huge and crowded ceremonies in the Chaco Canyon, the theory which is stated in the text.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 88, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...co Canyon, in New Mexico in the American Southwest, including residential place, ...
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Line 3, column 200, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'apartment'?
Suggestion: apartment
...aco Canyon looks like a Native American apartments, well-knows as apartment buildings, fro...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, hence, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1515.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17064846416 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59038298031 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511945392491 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 458.1 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1721229507 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.214285714 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9285714286 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.14285714286 7.06452816374 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.288999236869 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105140107758 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044157920419 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172351416799 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0270382024612 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => 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: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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