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 chart compares the expenditure of four countries on roads and transport at five year
intervals between 1990 and 2005.
Overall, of these countries Portugal spent the highest proportion of its total budget on roads
and transport. In contrast, over the period the UK government spent the lowest percentage.
In 1990, the proportion of spending on roads and transport in Portugal was 27%, ahead of
Italy with 22%. The percentage then declined steadily in Portugal, falling to 20% in 2005.
However, in Italy, the percentages fluctuated. They fell to 20% in 1995, reached a peak of
23% in 2000 and then fell again by 4% in 2005.
The figures also fluctuated in the UK and the USA, although they were consistently lower in
these two countries when compared with Portugal and Italy. Over the period, there was a
decline in the percentage of government expenditure on roads and transport in the UK, from
10% in 1990 to 8% in 2005. In contrast, the percentage rose over the period in the USA,
from 11% in 1990 to 15% in 2005.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, so, then, in contrast
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: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 33.7804878049 130% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 869.0 965.302439024 90% => OK
No of words: 179.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85474860335 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69334006562 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 106.607317073 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497206703911 0.547539520022 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 237.6 283.868780488 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 3.36585365854 267% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.4926829268 76% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.3407083519 43.030603864 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.9 112.824112599 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9 22.9334400587 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.6 5.23603664747 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 13.0 3.83414634146 339% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 3.70975609756 27% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.13902439024 263% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.09268292683 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35666454194 0.215688989381 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134184887275 0.103423049105 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0838182235999 0.0843802449381 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123255198375 0.15604864568 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0686543101898 0.0819641961636 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.2329268293 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 79.6 61.2550243902 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 10.3012195122 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 11.4140731707 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.4329268293 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.9970731707 80% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.0658536585 63% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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