The chart below displays the shares of expenditure on selected categories in the United States, Canada, the UK and Japan in 2009.

Essay topics:

The chart below displays the shares of expenditure on selected categories in the United States, Canada, the UK and Japan in 2009.

The bar graph shows the percentage of money spent on food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in four different countries in 2009.

<span style="font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;">Overall, all nations spent the most on housing in 2009 except for Japan, which the highest expenditure was on food. While Canada and the UK spent the least on health care, the United States of America allocated it on clothing, but for Japan, it was the same for both of these categories.</span>

In terms of housing, the USA was the biggest spender at just over a quarter on this as opposed to Canada and the United Kingdom, at approximately a fifth and just under 25% respectively. While Japan's expenditure on food was the highest compared to other countries at roughly 23%, Canada's spending on transportation was the biggest overall at exactly 20%.

<span style="font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;">Both the Canadians and the British spent the lowest proportion of money on health care, at nearly 5% and about 1% respectively. In comparison to the Americans, they spent the least on clothing at roughly 5%, whereas for Japanese, it was equal between both of these items at almost 5%.</span><br>

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 193, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, whereas, while, as for, except for

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 33.7804878049 107% => 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: 1039.0 965.302439024 108% => OK
No of words: 193.0 196.424390244 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38341968912 4.92477711251 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.75967346556 2.65546596893 142% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 106.607317073 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549222797927 0.547539520022 100% => OK
syllable_count: 296.1 283.868780488 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 8.94146341463 67% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 22.4926829268 142% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.0888362763 43.030603864 175% => OK
Chars per sentence: 173.166666667 112.824112599 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.1666666667 22.9334400587 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 5.23603664747 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.111723767593 0.215688989381 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574687613356 0.103423049105 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487968870173 0.0843802449381 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0695389976059 0.15604864568 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.055879788955 0.0819641961636 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.0 13.2329268293 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 61.2550243902 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.51609756098 172% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 10.3012195122 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.52 11.4140731707 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.06136585366 107% => OK
difficult_words: 42.0 40.7170731707 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.4329268293 166% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.9970731707 135% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.0658536585 136% => 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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