Line-price changes

Essay topics:

Line-price changes

The line graph compares the changes in the price of three different food categories and the consumer-price index (CPI) in the US, over a period of 30 years, from 1978 to 2009.

Overall, the prices and the CPI increased over the period. Although the general trend was upwards, the prices for fresh fruits and vegetables were by far much higher than the CPI, while those for sugar and sweets, and carbonated drinks, were generally lower.

At the beginning of the period, the prices for all categories were almost the same, starting between 60 and 70. In the following decade, the prices slightly fluctuated. Although the prices, in general, increased to above 100 by the year of 1987, there were not much difference between every group of food, and in comparison with CPI, in this period.

From 1987 to 2009, the data showed more discrepancies between the prices of food groups. To elaborate, fresh fruits and vegetable prices overtook the CPI and the other two groups’ prices, and increased significantly throughout the period to roughly 330 by 2209. In contrast, even though the change pattern in prices of sweets and sugar and carbonated drinks saw a gradual increase, the prices were below the CPI figure which rose to above 200 by the year of 2009. Sugar and sweets, and carbonated drinks prices increased to 150 and 100, about ½ and 1/3 of that number of fresh fruits and vegetable, respectively.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 281, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...od to roughly 330 by 2209. In contrast, even though the change pattern in prices...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, while, in contrast, in general

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 : 17.0 6.8 250% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 33.7804878049 127% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 3.97073170732 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1177.0 965.302439024 122% => OK
No of words: 239.0 196.424390244 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92468619247 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 3.73543355544 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58877160347 2.65546596893 97% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 106.607317073 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523012552301 0.547539520022 96% => OK
syllable_count: 336.6 283.868780488 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.07073170732 374% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.482926829268 828% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 3.36585365854 297% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6508154644 43.030603864 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.7 112.824112599 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9 22.9334400587 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 5.23603664747 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296672037355 0.215688989381 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127867469354 0.103423049105 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0973969151297 0.0843802449381 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196933430789 0.15604864568 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110914237336 0.0819641961636 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.2329268293 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 11.4140731707 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.06136585366 93% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 40.7170731707 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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