The bar chart illustrates how often Americans dined at fast food restaurants over a period of a decade, from 2003 to 2013.
Overall, most Americans ate at fast food joints moderately, while only a significant few ate out daily or never at all.
In 2003, a little over 30% of Americans were eating out once a week. This figure slightly rose to about 33% in 2006, before dropping to around 27% 7 years later. In contrast, 30% of Americans were dining out in 2003, before experiencing a decline and then a sharp rise to about 33% a decade later.
On the other hand, only about 15% of Americans ate at fast food joints several times a week in 2003. This increased to 20% a few years later, before dropping back down to roughly the same value as it was before, in 2013. Likewise, about 12% of Americans ate out a few times a year in 2003. This figure rose to and remained at 15% from 2006 to 2013. Those who ate at fast food restaurants every day or never at all remained at just under 5% within the given time period.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, likewise, then, while, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 33.7804878049 145% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 832.0 965.302439024 86% => OK
No of words: 191.0 196.424390244 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.35602094241 4.92477711251 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34864464851 2.65546596893 88% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 106.607317073 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539267015707 0.547539520022 98% => OK
syllable_count: 258.3 283.868780488 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 1.53170731707 261% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.07073170732 374% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 3.36585365854 267% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.8976832941 43.030603864 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.2 112.824112599 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1 22.9334400587 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 5.23603664747 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => 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: 7.0 4.09268292683 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224202387782 0.215688989381 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100279908472 0.103423049105 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0865982583446 0.0843802449381 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166275228989 0.15604864568 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0985755227798 0.0819641961636 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 13.2329268293 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 61.2550243902 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.3012195122 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.01 11.4140731707 70% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.81 8.06136585366 84% => OK
difficult_words: 27.0 40.7170731707 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.