The given bar graph illustrates the contrasting trends in the number of films rented and sold from 2002 to 2011 on a yearly basis. It can be observed from the graph that there appears to be a shift in consumer behavior over the past years with sales being favored over rentals of films.
Firstly, DVD sales started out in 2002 with a modest number of close to 50000 but emerged as the format with the highest sales over the years by registering a sharp increase to above 200000 by 2007, which was followed by a gradual decrease. In contrast to this, the number of films rented continued to decline over the years consistently and the film rentals in 2011 had come down to less than half of its numbers in 2002.
On the other hand, VHS and Blu-ray sales, which occupy a minor proportion of total annual sales present unique results. VHS sales had more number of films sold than DVD in 2002 but eventually faded out in 2006, after a sharp plummet. However, sales of Blu-ray films started in 2007 and continued to grow steadily.
To sum up, the annual number of films sold or rented at the store reflects the changing preference of users with more people opting for sales compared to rentals. Among this trend, DVD sales remain the most sought after format of films with Blu-ray sales slowly picking up the pace.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, so, in contrast, in contrast to, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 33.7804878049 169% => 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: 1083.0 965.302439024 112% => OK
No of words: 236.0 196.424390244 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.58898305085 4.92477711251 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 3.73543355544 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20040133056 2.65546596893 83% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 106.607317073 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53813559322 0.547539520022 98% => OK
syllable_count: 306.9 283.868780488 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => 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: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.4926829268 116% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.298928449 43.030603864 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.333333333 112.824112599 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2222222222 22.9334400587 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5555555556 5.23603664747 202% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
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: 0.367570078654 0.215688989381 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159602649946 0.103423049105 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0500828651764 0.0843802449381 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221848614692 0.15604864568 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056088210057 0.0819641961636 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 70.47 61.2550243902 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.64 11.4140731707 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.06136585366 103% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 40.7170731707 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.9970731707 113% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.0658536585 117% => 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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