The bar chart shows active participation rates in top ten sports in 1998 and 2005

Essay topics:

The bar chart shows active participation rates in top ten sports in 1998 and 2005.

The bar chart describes the percentage of Canadian sports activity participating in the ten most famous sports in 1998 and 2005.

It can seen from the graph that, in 1998 golf was the sport that had the highest participation rate with about 22% followed by hockey about 18%. However, in 2005 these figures fell to just over 20% and about 17.5% respectively. Further the percentage of Canadians taking the part in baseball was 17% in 1998, which was the third biggest, but this rate dropped significantly by some 10% in 2005.

In addition to this, in 2005 the percentage of people joining in tennis, cycling, downhill, alpine skiing, volleyball and basketball was around 8% and there were slight decreases of 1 to 2% in the participation rates of these sports in 2005. Furthermore, similarly the figure for swimming also went down 13% to just over 10%. Finally, soccer was the only sport that observed a slight increase from about 9 to 10%.

To sum up, golf and ice hockey were the most common sports in Canada, and the participation rates of most sports declined the overall period.

Votes
Average: 6 (4 votes)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: see; be seen
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, similarly, so, third, in addition, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.0 100% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 8.0 5.60731707317 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 905.0 965.302439024 94% => OK
No of words: 187.0 196.424390244 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83957219251 4.92477711251 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65540196552 2.65546596893 100% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 106.607317073 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.547539520022 107% => OK
syllable_count: 254.7 283.868780488 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2952221886 43.030603864 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.125 112.824112599 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.375 22.9334400587 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.25 5.23603664747 215% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More 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: 0.348048116283 0.215688989381 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15244715079 0.103423049105 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.15356907829 0.0843802449381 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249268540672 0.15604864568 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.161225249812 0.0819641961636 197% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.2329268293 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 11.4140731707 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.06136585366 100% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => 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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