The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000 and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where re

Essay topics:

The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000 and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.

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

The first bar graph illustrates the number of marital union and divorces in the USA from 1970 to 2000. The second chart gives information about the civil status of American adults in 1970 and 2000.

Overall, the number of marriages in the United States is steadily declining over the given period. Similarly, the number of couples divorcing is also going down with some fluctuation. In 1970, there are more people getting married than in 2000. In contrast, more marriage ended in divorce in 2000 than in 1970. There were also more people whose chose not to get married in 2000 than in 1970, while the percentage of widowed people are almost the same between the 2 years.

In 1970 and 1980, about 2.5 million people got married, however by 1990, this number started to decline and by 2000, it hits its lowest at 2 million. Divorce, on the other hand, was 1 million in 1970 then rose up to about 1.5 million in 1980 but started to go down in 1990 and by 2000, the number went back to 1 million.

In 1970, about 15% of American adults remained single, but in 2000, this percentage went up to 20%. In contrast, marriages in 1970 were at 70% but dipped down to 60% in 2000. The divorce rate was at approximately 2% in1970 then rose to almost 10% 30 years after. The number of widowed Americans remained constant at about 10% in 1970 and 2000.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, similarly, so, then, while, in contrast, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 33.7804878049 178% => 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: 1105.0 965.302439024 114% => OK
No of words: 244.0 196.424390244 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.52868852459 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 3.73543355544 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28035011362 2.65546596893 86% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 106.607317073 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504098360656 0.547539520022 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 310.5 283.868780488 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 3.36585365854 238% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 8.94146341463 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2331027727 43.030603864 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 112.824112599 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7692307692 22.9334400587 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15384615385 5.23603664747 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.13902439024 263% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.09268292683 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265779455499 0.215688989381 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11506778067 0.103423049105 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938153861003 0.0843802449381 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189205771797 0.15604864568 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114886085825 0.0819641961636 140% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.2329268293 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 78.59 61.2550243902 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.3012195122 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.99 11.4140731707 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.92 8.06136585366 86% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 40.7170731707 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.4329268293 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.0658536585 63% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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