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

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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 illustrates the expenditure proportions of five categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan in 2009.
Overall, in 2009, four countries spent mostly on housing and least on clothing and health care. It is also noticeable that the food and transportation expenditure shares had the opposite data in four regions.
In 2009, the United States’s expenditure on housing ranked first with nearly a quarter, 5% more than that of Canada. In terms of food, there was a huge gap between the expenses of the UK and Japan and that of the other countries. The US only spent under 15%, less than approximately half that of the first ranked country - Japan. The contrasting pattern can be seen in the category of transportation, where the United States and Canada’s percentage exceeded that of Japan (10%) nearly by half.
Regarding healthcare, the United States regained its top position despite having less than 10%. However, the expenditure of the US on clothing remained at last place with a slight gap less than that of Canada (over 5%).

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, regarding, so

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 : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 10.0 5.60731707317 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 33.7804878049 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 892.0 965.302439024 92% => OK
No of words: 179.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98324022346 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78146422049 2.65546596893 105% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 106.607317073 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59217877095 0.547539520022 108% => OK
syllable_count: 268.2 283.868780488 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

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: 21.0912186981 43.030603864 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.1111111111 112.824112599 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8888888889 22.9334400587 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88888888889 5.23603664747 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.367457730477 0.215688989381 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150296574064 0.103423049105 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.165808115611 0.0843802449381 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248220010781 0.15604864568 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.197998957283 0.0819641961636 242% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.2329268293 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 61.2550243902 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 11.4140731707 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 40.7170731707 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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