The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New Zealand in 2002.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New Zealand in 2002.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates the proportion of boys and girls who participated in various sports in New Zealand in 2002.
Overall, it is clear that there were significant differences between the percentage of boys and girls who took part in most of these sports. However, the proportion who played basketball and tennis was similar.
Among girls, 25% played netball and a slightly lower percentage - 22% - enjoyed swimming. Approximately 8% and 7% of girls played tennis and basketball respectively – a figure which was only slightly lower than boys for both sports. While 6% of girls played soccer and 5% took part in athletics, less than 5% of girls participated in martial arts and cricket. Finally, participation in other, unspecified, sports totalled around 10%.
In contrast, among boys, only 1% played netball. The sports with the highest participation figures were soccer, swimming and cricket, with 25%, 13% and 12% respectively. These were followed by cricket, martial arts, tennis and basketball which all had figures of between 11% and 8%. About 18% of boys played other sports.

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...sketball and tennis was similar. Among girls, 25% played netball and a sl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, so, while, in contrast

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 6.8 176% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 3.15609756098 190% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 33.7804878049 74% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 915.0 965.302439024 95% => OK
No of words: 174.0 196.424390244 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25862068966 4.92477711251 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85527617131 2.65546596893 108% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 106.607317073 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.574712643678 0.547539520022 105% => OK
syllable_count: 246.6 283.868780488 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.4926829268 67% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.3550184202 43.030603864 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.1818181818 112.824112599 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8181818182 22.9334400587 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.23603664747 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 63.0 1.69756097561 3711% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 3.70975609756 216% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105617884914 0.215688989381 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.04818630084 0.103423049105 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460315033023 0.0843802449381 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0835793339762 0.15604864568 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541843891956 0.0819641961636 66% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.2329268293 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 61.2550243902 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.3012195122 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 11.4140731707 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.9970731707 73% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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