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 bar chart illustrates the proportion of government expenditure on roads and transport in 4 countries from 1990 to 2005.

Overall, Portugal and Italy had much higher percentage compared to USA and UK. The figure of Portugal decreased over 15 years whilst USA increased and Italy as well as UK fluctuated in the same period.

The government expenditure on roads and transport of Portugal was about 27% in 1990 then gradually declined to precisely 20% in 2005. By contrast, USA government spend much less proportion on transportation infrastructure than Portugal with over 10% in 1990. This number however went up and reached the peak of 15% in 2005.

Italy government spend pretty much on roads and transport with about 23% in 1990, this figure then fluctuated and finally dropped to approximately 19% in 2005. Changing in the same manner at a lower level, the data of UK started with 10% in 1990 then declined to 9% in 1995. After reaching the peak of about 12%, the data ended up with 7% in 2005.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, then, well, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 7.0 14% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 0.0 3.15609756098 0% => OK
Pronoun: 2.0 5.60731707317 36% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 33.7804878049 124% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.97073170732 176% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 839.0 965.302439024 87% => OK
No of words: 173.0 196.424390244 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84971098266 4.92477711251 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62669911048 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79010581054 2.65546596893 105% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 106.607317073 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.520231213873 0.547539520022 95% => OK
syllable_count: 235.8 283.868780488 83% => 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
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.886617014 43.030603864 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.2222222222 112.824112599 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2222222222 22.9334400587 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44444444444 5.23603664747 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
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: 0.320558659965 0.215688989381 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137546768724 0.103423049105 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123068467213 0.0843802449381 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222278352041 0.15604864568 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136996678157 0.0819641961636 167% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.2329268293 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 61.2550243902 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.3012195122 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 11.4140731707 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 40.7170731707 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => 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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