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 was also going down but with some fluctuation. In comparison, there were more married couple in 1970 than in 2000. In contrast, there were more divorce and single individuals in 2000 than in 1970. However, the number of widowed American remained the same.
The number of people who got married in 1970 was about 2.5 million. The same number of marriages was the same in 1980 but by 1990 it started to decline and by 2000 it hits its lowest at 2 million. Similarly, the number of people getting a divorce was at 1 million in 1970. It rose up to about 1.5 million in 1980 but progressively decline in 1990 and by 2000, the number went down to 1 million.
In comparing marital status, the percentage of married American were at 70% of American in 1970 but went down to 60% in 2000. In contrast, the divorce rate was at about 2% in 1970 then rose to 10% in 2000. Likewise, single individuals were at 15% in 1970 then went up to 20% in 2000. The percentage of widowed Americans remained almost constant at approximately 10%.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, likewise, second, similarly, so, then, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 7.0 143% => 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: 61.0 33.7804878049 181% => 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: 1128.0 965.302439024 117% => OK
No of words: 244.0 196.424390244 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62295081967 4.92477711251 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 3.73543355544 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53334388273 2.65546596893 95% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 106.607317073 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44262295082 0.547539520022 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 332.1 283.868780488 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.33902439024 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 8.94146341463 168% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.4926829268 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 20.9662162114 43.030603864 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.2 112.824112599 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2666666667 22.9334400587 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13333333333 5.23603664747 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => 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: 0.241055521932 0.215688989381 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101134825642 0.103423049105 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093302192211 0.0843802449381 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183894268903 0.15604864568 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114625014557 0.0819641961636 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 13.2329268293 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 61.2550243902 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.3012195122 70% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.22 11.4140731707 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.95 8.06136585366 86% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.4329268293 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.9970731707 76% => 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: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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