The reading brings up three theories to explain the usage of carved stone balls. However, the professor refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the passage asserts that these stone maybe used as a fighting or hunting tools. The lecturer rejects this theory by stating that the surface of these stones are not damaged. She adds if the stones were used for hunting or fighting they would have broken up and damaged like the axes of Neolithic era so they could not applicate for these purposes.
Second, the reading argues that the uniform size of stone balls indicates they used to as weights for measurement system. The professor, nonetheless, explains that in spite of the fact that the stones have uniform size, the density of them are various because they are formed from a large different type of stones. For example, two stones which have similar size definitely have different weights. Therefore, they are not appropriate for measurement system of weighting.
Third, the reading states that the stone are the sign of the social rank of their owner. On the other hand the lecture extremely rejects this reason by saying that most of the stone are absolutely simple without to be considered as symbol of social status of their owner. Furthermore, in Neolithic era the important possessions of one person were graved with everyone although these type of stone have not found in the tombs.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, may, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, third, for example, in spite of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1172.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98723404255 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40723219961 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.557446808511 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2906508626 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6666666667 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5833333333 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.420360911156 0.272083759551 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146440883514 0.0996497079465 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736624463175 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225307206873 0.162205337803 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.076682346105 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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