Bar chart : Shares of expenditures for selected categories, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan, 2009.

Essay topics:

Bar chart : Shares of expenditures for selected categories, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan, 2009.

The bar charts illustrates the percentage of expenditures for five major categories in the United States in the year 2009.

Overall, the largest proportion of expenditures in all countries, except for Japan, went on housing. Also, the percentage of consumer spending for health care and clothing was significant lower than that of others.

As can be seen from the charts, the US expenditure on housing was highest, with over 25%. The figure for transportation and food was followed, with 17% and 14% respectively. The proportion of consumer spending was significant lower with 8% on health care and 3.5% on clothing. Besides, the proportion of expenditure on housing of Canada was 21%, relatively similar to the figure for transportation and 3 times as much as the percentage of expenditure for health care.

Looking at the chart in more details, the percentage of UK consumer spending on health care was the lowest, with only 3% while compared to 15% of transportation and 20% of food. Japanese spend the largest share of expenditure on food with approximately 23%, while the figures for transportation and clothing was 10% and 4% respectively.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 16, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[2]
Message: You should probably use 'illustrate'.
Suggestion: illustrate
The bar charts illustrates the percentage of expenditures for five...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lothing was 10% and 4% respectively.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, if, look, so, while, except for

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 2.0 5.60731707317 36% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 33.7804878049 101% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.97073170732 176% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 976.0 965.302439024 101% => OK
No of words: 187.0 196.424390244 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2192513369 4.92477711251 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17126276847 2.65546596893 119% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 106.607317073 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502673796791 0.547539520022 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 288.9 283.868780488 102% => 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: 8.0 4.33902439024 184% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
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: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.0824906271 43.030603864 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.444444444 112.824112599 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7777777778 22.9334400587 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11111111111 5.23603664747 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => 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: 0.197985016907 0.215688989381 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.095156273646 0.103423049105 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.095839091677 0.0843802449381 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154720694295 0.15604864568 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101337851945 0.0819641961636 124% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.2329268293 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 61.2550243902 97% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.51609756098 172% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 11.4140731707 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.06136585366 94% => OK
difficult_words: 35.0 40.7170731707 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.4329268293 79% => 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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