Archaeologists have been wondering about the function of the shafts in the Great Pyramid, which was built for an ancient Egyptian king. The passage believes that the shafts are used for ventilation, for religious reasons, and as the passageways for the king's spirit to afterlife. However, the lecture finds all three reasons problematic.
Firstly, the ventilation theory is unconvincing. Although the upper shafts can reach the outside of the pyramids, the lower shafts cannot. Since the four shafts have a similar structure, they seem to have the same function. However, just the two of the shafts can bring the fresh air in. Therefore, those four shafts are unlikely to be used for ventilation.
Secondly, the star alignment theory is also problematic. It's true that according to ancient Egyptian history, the specific arts were associated with particular gods, but that records only appear in late years. In fact, in early years, when the great Pyramid was built, the records didn't indicate a strong association with a specific god and a specific star. Therefore, the establishment of the shafts was impossible to have some religious reasons.
Thirdly, the shafts are not the passageways for the king's spirit. Ancient Egyptians did believe that the king's spirits could travel to the afterlife, but they didn't believe the kings needed an actual opening. In other pyramids built for the dead kings, there are just some symbolic passageways, for example, the doors on the wall, without an actual opening. Therefore, since the king's spirit does not need an actual passageway to travel to the afterlife, the four shafts must have some other functions.
Archaeologists have been wondering about the function of the shafts in the Great Pyramid, which was built for an ancient Egyptian king. The passage believes that the shafts are used for ventilation, for religious reasons, and as the passageways for the king's spirit to afterlife. However, the lecture finds all three reasons problematic.
Firstly, the ventilation theory is unconvincing. Although the upper shafts can reach the outside of the pyramids, the lower shafts cannot. Since the four shafts have a similar structure, they seem to have the same function. However, just the two of the shafts can bring the fresh air in. Therefore, those four shafts are unlikely to be used for ventilation.
Secondly, the star alignment theory is also problematic. It's true that according to ancient Egyptian history, the specific arts were associated with particular gods, but that records only appear in late years. In fact, in early years, when the great Pyramid was built, the records didn't indicate a strong association with a specific god and a specific star. Therefore, the establishment of the shafts was impossible to have some religious reasons.
Thirdly, the shafts are not the passageways for the king's spirit. Ancient Egyptians did believe that the king's spirits could travel to the afterlife, but they didn't believe the kings needed an actual opening. In other pyramids built for the dead kings, there are just some symbolic passageways, for example, the doors on the wall, without an actual opening. Therefore, since the king's spirit does not need an actual passageway to travel to the afterlife, the four shafts must have some other functions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, for example, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1392.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21348314607 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69234991294 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531835205993 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 413.1 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1095716385 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6875 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8125 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.604065439439 0.272083759551 222% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.19152158665 0.0996497079465 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.199565881387 0.0662205650399 301% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.37872433473 0.162205337803 233% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.265442930708 0.0443174109184 599% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.3589403974 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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