The charts below give information about the number of marriages and divorces between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons

Essay topics:

The charts below give information about the number of marriages and divorces between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.

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

The first bar graph illustrates how the number of marriages and divorces changed between 1970 and 2000, and the second graph shows that the martial status of adult Americans in1970 and 2000.

According to the first graph, the number of marriages was more than twice than the number od divorces in 1970 and 2000. The number of marriages and divorces were 2.5million and 1million in 1970 and the same figures were 2million and 1million in 2000. Also the number of marrages was almost the same as the number of divorces in 1980 respectly.

When it comes to the second one, the percentage of married people was highest both in 1970 and in 2000. The figure was 70% in 1970 and 60% in 2000. The percentage of never married was approximately 18% in 1970 and 20% in 2000. It is interesting to note that the number of widowed people and divorced people was lower than 10% in 1970 and 2000.

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Average: 6.5 (4 votes)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 252, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...res were 2million and 1million in 2000. Also the number of marrages was almost the s...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, second, so

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 7.0 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 6.8 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 33.7804878049 71% => 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: 728.0 965.302439024 75% => OK
No of words: 159.0 196.424390244 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.5786163522 4.92477711251 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.73543355544 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32787678453 2.65546596893 88% => OK
Unique words: 68.0 106.607317073 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.427672955975 0.547539520022 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 200.7 283.868780488 71% => 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
Interrogative: 1.0 0.114634146341 872% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 3.36585365854 30% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.9888656378 43.030603864 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.0 112.824112599 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.875 22.9334400587 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.875 5.23603664747 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
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: 0.238840059683 0.215688989381 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120430641966 0.103423049105 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0556138603272 0.0843802449381 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184920225713 0.15604864568 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500625787534 0.0819641961636 61% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.2329268293 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 77.57 61.2550243902 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.3012195122 70% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.28 11.4140731707 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.86 8.06136585366 85% => OK
difficult_words: 23.0 40.7170731707 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => 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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Sentence: According to the first graph, the number of marriages was more than twice than the number od divorces in 1970 and 2000.
Error: od Suggestion: No alternate word

Sentence: Also the number of marrages was almost the same as the number of divorces in 1980 respectly.
Error: respectly Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: marrages Suggestion: marriages

flaws:
No. of Different Words: 69 100 //more Different Words wanted

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Need comparisons, not just list the numbers over there:
The number of marriages and divorces were 2.5million and 1million in 1970 and the same figures were 2million and 1million in 2000

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 6.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 8 10
No. of Words: 160 200
No. of Characters: 704 1000
No. of Different Words: 69 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.557 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.4 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.303 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 45 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 29 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 20 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 11 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.185 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.552 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.729 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.254 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 4