The bar chart below shows the percentage of government spending on roads and transport in 4 countries in the years 1990 1995 2000 2005

Essay topics:

The bar chart below shows the percentage of government spending on roads and transport in
4 countries in the years 1990 1995 2000 2005.

The graph illustrates the proportion of expenditure the government spent on transportation related in terms of four different countries (Italy, Portugal, UK, US) between 1990 and 2005.

Overall, it can clearly be seen that the amount of money used for infrastructure in Portugal lessen each year. Meanwhile, except for the year of 1995, the US government invested more money on roads and transport.

In the year of 1990, Portugal funded about 27% of their expenditures on infrastructure, in which it provided the largest amount of money out of 4 countries. Similar to Portugal, Italy also spent more than 20% to upgrade and expand public provision. Meanwhile, the UK spent the least, where only 10% of government revenue was put into road and transport. The US spent slightly more than the UK, with approximately 11%.Over 5-year interval, all 4 countries had their expenditures declined, approximately 1% to 3% fell.

In 2000, Italy, the UK, and the USA significantly invested more fund on transport infrastructure, in which increased to 23%, 12% and 13% respectively. Whereas the proportion of fund spent in Portugal continued to decrease to around 22% in the same period and then to 20% after another 5 years, where Italy and the UK also had their spending fell almost 5%. The USA was the only country that funded extra, where its percentage rose up to 15%.

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Average: 9.1 (3 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 418, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Over
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, then, whereas, while, except for

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 11.0 5.60731707317 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 33.7804878049 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 3.97073170732 151% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1143.0 965.302439024 118% => OK
No of words: 226.0 196.424390244 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05752212389 4.92477711251 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 3.73543355544 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01544371118 2.65546596893 114% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 106.607317073 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557522123894 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 332.1 283.868780488 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 3.36585365854 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7246774688 43.030603864 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.3 112.824112599 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 22.9334400587 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 5.23603664747 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.09268292683 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204448296599 0.215688989381 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0836370543001 0.103423049105 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0644256344107 0.0843802449381 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130903773198 0.15604864568 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033165545662 0.0819641961636 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.2329268293 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 61.2550243902 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 11.4140731707 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 40.7170731707 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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