The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States Canada the United Kingdom and Japan in the year 2009

Essay topics:

The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009

The Bar chart compares the percentages of consumer spending on five various categories namely food, housing, transportation, healthcare and clothing. The trends here are from 4 countries that are the United states, Canada, United kingdom and Japan in year 2009.
In 2009, percentage of shares of money spent on housing was the highest in the USA at 26%, followed by the British at 24%. Canada and Japan were almost the same at 21% and 22% respectively. As opposed to this,23% of Japanese citizens spent money on food, with United kingdom just below that at 20%, Canada at 14% and lastly USA at 13%. In transportation sector, USA and Canada recorded high percentage of purchases at 17% and 20% respectively.
The least expensive categories were Healthcare and Clothing. In healthcare USA was leading at around 7% and United Kingdom the least with 2% only. Canada and Japan were in between this range at 4%.Clothing saw almost same expenditure in all 4 countries with USA and Japan dipping below 5% while Canada and UK in the range of 5% to 6% expenditure.
Overall ,from the bar graph we can deduce that most expenditure is done on food, housing and transportation whereas least on healthcare and clothing. Moreover, amongst the 4 countries maximum spendings are on housing sector and least are on healthcare sector.

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Average: 7.3 (2 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 197, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Clothing
... Japan were in between this range at 4%.Clothing saw almost same expenditure in all 4 co...
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Line 4, column 8, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... range of 5% to 6% expenditure. Overall ,from the bar graph we can deduce that mo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
lastly, moreover, whereas, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.0 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 6.8 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 33.7804878049 124% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1100.0 965.302439024 114% => OK
No of words: 221.0 196.424390244 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97737556561 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 3.73543355544 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85092292282 2.65546596893 107% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 106.607317073 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506787330317 0.547539520022 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 331.2 283.868780488 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 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: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8874196233 43.030603864 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 112.824112599 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0909090909 22.9334400587 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 5.23603664747 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => 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: 5.0 4.09268292683 122% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265122694865 0.215688989381 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106009434062 0.103423049105 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0948331286999 0.0843802449381 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179339261264 0.15604864568 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123865243972 0.0819641961636 151% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.2329268293 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 61.2550243902 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 11.4140731707 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.06136585366 103% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 40.7170731707 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 197, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Clothing
... Japan were in between this range at 4%.Clothing saw almost same expenditure in all 4 co...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 8, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... range of 5% to 6% expenditure. Overall ,from the bar graph we can deduce that mo...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
lastly, moreover, whereas, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.0 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 6.8 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 33.7804878049 124% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1100.0 965.302439024 114% => OK
No of words: 221.0 196.424390244 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97737556561 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 3.73543355544 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85092292282 2.65546596893 107% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 106.607317073 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506787330317 0.547539520022 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 331.2 283.868780488 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 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: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8874196233 43.030603864 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 112.824112599 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0909090909 22.9334400587 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 5.23603664747 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => 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: 5.0 4.09268292683 122% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265122694865 0.215688989381 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106009434062 0.103423049105 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0948331286999 0.0843802449381 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179339261264 0.15604864568 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123865243972 0.0819641961636 151% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.2329268293 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 61.2550243902 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 11.4140731707 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.06136585366 103% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 40.7170731707 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.