Based on the given materials, the article as well as the lecture discusses silver coins which were founded at a Native American site in Maine state of US. There are several opinions about how the coins existed there; some people believe that the coins transferred to this area by European explorers, named Norse, who had had close relationships with native Americans. The author states that there are several reasons why some archaeologists claim that mentioned coins are not genuine historical evidence. That being said, the lecturer provides several ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the author says that the distance between Native Americans site, where the coin had been discovered, and Norse sites is so large to exist any possibility for connection between Norse and those Native mans. However, the lecturer explains that since Native Americans in Maine site travelled to North America, they may obtain some objects from faraway places. So, Native Americans could have reached the Norse settlements and brought back these coins.
Second, the writer proclaims that there were no other coins at the Canadian sites, which were inhabited by Norse mans, so, there is not any possibility for bringing any silver coin by the Norse. Yet again, the speaker underscores that the Norse did not have permanent settlements in North America, and they travelled a lot among Europe. As they picked up valuable objects for returning to America, they may drop all their silver coins there.
The final contention between the reading and the listening passage is valuation of silver coins in North America. The author thinks that native North Americans were not aware of silver coins' value and never did they rely on the coins as money. On the other hand, the speaker explains that the Norse did know that native Americans valued strange or appealing objects, and these silver coins would be attractive to them, because of using in jewelry industries such as neckless and so on. So, the native North Americans used the coins as well as some attractive objects, while the Norse reached their purpose, which was trading with the coins.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 318, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: had
...by European explorers, named Norse, who had had close relationships with native America...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, may, second, so, well, while, as to, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1785.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11461318052 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39451731836 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512893982808 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 566.1 419.366225166 135% => 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
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3977955227 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.5 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9285714286 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.599953077238 0.272083759551 221% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.211297644786 0.0996497079465 212% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0760221370605 0.0662205650399 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.366077080084 0.162205337803 226% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245833301526 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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