Carved stone balls found at a different locations of Scotland are the artifacts whose possible purposes and meanings have been discussed in the reading. Historians provided three theories to identify the purpose of the balls. Whereas, lecturer is not convincing with these theories and casts doubts with her opinions.
Firstly, reading states that carved stone balls could be used as weapons because they have holes and grooves so that cord could pass through holes. Contrary to this opinion, lecture states that stone balls are unlikely to be used as weapons because arrow heads and hand axis must had sign of wear which were used for hunting and fighting purposes. Stones would have some cracks to show as a sign but these balls are not damaged and even they were kept well preserved.
Secondly, reading claims that balls were used as primitive weight measures because all balls are in uniform size and 70 mm in diameters. While, lecture states that stones balls are made up of different types of materials like sand, quartz which have difference in density. This difference in density leads to difference in weight if they are of uniform size which shows that they were not used as weight measures.
Thirdly, reading states that carved stone balls with carved design resemblance as a symbol of social status. Whereas, lecture casts doubt on this opinion and states that there are inconsistent facts which shows balls were unlikely to be used as a social symbol. High ranked people buried with their possessions in the Neolithic period but carved balls were not found in the grave of any high ranked personality which resembles that balls were not used for social purpose.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 41, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'location'?
Suggestion: location
...Carved stone balls found at a different locations of Scotland are the artifacts whose pos...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'third', 'thirdly', 'well', 'whereas', 'while']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.303333333333 0.261695866417 116% => OK
Verbs: 0.2 0.158904122519 126% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0566666666667 0.0723426182421 78% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0366666666667 0.0435111971325 84% => OK
Pronouns: 0.02 0.0277247811725 72% => OK
Prepositions: 0.156666666667 0.128828473217 122% => OK
Participles: 0.0766666666667 0.0370669169778 207% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.29578140181 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Infinitives: 0.02 0.0208969081088 96% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.06 0.128158765124 47% => Some determiners wanted.
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0133333333333 0.0158828679856 84% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0233333333333 0.0114777025283 203% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1675.0 1645.83664459 102% => OK
No of words: 280.0 271.125827815 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98214285714 6.08160592843 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04852973271 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.357142857143 0.374372842146 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.242857142857 0.287516216867 84% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.164285714286 0.187439937562 88% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0857142857143 0.113142543107 76% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29578140181 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507142857143 0.539623497131 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.5277618465 53.8517498576 92% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0529801325 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.3333333333 21.7502111507 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8802022463 49.3711431718 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.583333333 132.220823453 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 21.7502111507 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.878197800319 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 47.619047619 50.5018328374 94% => OK
Elegance: 2.09090909091 1.90840788429 110% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.594549760923 0.549887131256 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.139010564225 0.142949733639 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0754338280024 0.0787303798458 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.607004230405 0.631733273073 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0947293149581 0.139662658121 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.254960108073 0.266732575781 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.097157833606 0.103435571967 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.277555661925 0.414875509568 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0710058449864 0.0530846634433 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.398326521207 0.40443939384 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058919521387 0.0528353158467 112% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.26048565121 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.62251655629 138% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.1766004415 126% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.