The chart below shows the number of trips made by children in one country in 1990 and 2010 to travel to and from school using different modes of transport.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where r

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The chart below shows the number of trips made by children in one country in 1990 and 2010 to travel to and from school using different modes of transport.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates how many trips that children aged from 5 to 12 years old travelled to school by car, bicycle, bus, on foot, or the combination of walking and bus.

Overall, the number of trips that children travelled to and from school in 1990 is higher than in the year 2010. Walking witnessed the largest amount of trips in 1990 before car become more popular to children in 2010.

Regarding the data of trips taken by car, in 1990, is lowest among other travelling methods, at around 4%. However, there was a significant increase in the figure for car passenger in 2010, at nearly 12%, which was recorded as the highest number of trips. The opposite trend was true for cycling, this method experienced a sharp fall from approximately 6% in 1990 to 2% in 2010.

Turning to walking, the data in 1990 doubled that in 2010, it means that the year 2010 witnessed a steady decrease in the number of trips taken. Similarly, the value for walking and bus decreased two times in the period of 10 years, from 6% to around 2%. The trips by bus saw the smallest change in the value for the year 1990 and 2010, just a 2-percent decrease.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, regarding, similarly

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.15609756098 158% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 33.7804878049 130% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 3.97073170732 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 940.0 965.302439024 97% => OK
No of words: 207.0 196.424390244 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.54106280193 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79308509922 3.73543355544 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4013792547 2.65546596893 90% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 106.607317073 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545893719807 0.547539520022 100% => OK
syllable_count: 258.3 283.868780488 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.45097560976 83% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.5656791731 43.030603864 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 104.444444444 112.824112599 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 22.9334400587 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.23603664747 70% => 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 : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231568822592 0.215688989381 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1141542114 0.103423049105 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0739845333909 0.0843802449381 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159970083923 0.15604864568 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.060399128652 0.0819641961636 74% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.2329268293 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 81.97 61.2550243902 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.5 10.3012195122 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.35 11.4140731707 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => 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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