The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.

Essay topics:

The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.

The pie chart compares five categories of household expense in the UK and New Zealand in the years 1980 and 2008.
It is clear that the percentage of expenditure on Food and drink dropped significantly in both countries whereas the figures for utility bills increased. UK residents spent a large percentage of their household budgets on leisure than their New Zealand counterparts.
In 2008, the proportion of household budgets for food and drink in the UK was lower than their New Zealand counterparts, with 23% and 29 % respectively.By 2008, spending on food and drink had fallen slightly to 25% in New Zealand and had dropped dramatically to 13% in the UK. By contrast, both countries experienced a slight rise in expenditure on utility bills for the average home, from 27% to 31% in New Zealand and from 26% to 28% in the UK.
UK residents spent twice as much in relative terms on recreation (34%) as New Zealand citizens (17%) in 2008. In both countries, transport costs and other costs accounted for 15% and 10% of household budget respectively.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 153, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: By
...erparts, with 23% and 29 % respectively.By 2008, spending on food and drink had fa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, whereas

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 7.0 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 6.8 147% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 33.7804878049 95% => 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: 875.0 965.302439024 91% => OK
No of words: 179.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88826815642 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94221613796 2.65546596893 111% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 106.607317073 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525139664804 0.547539520022 96% => OK
syllable_count: 244.8 283.868780488 86% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 22.4926829268 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9001990599 43.030603864 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.0 112.824112599 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5714285714 22.9334400587 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.57142857143 5.23603664747 30% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.135907397017 0.215688989381 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709764807282 0.103423049105 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0574843350055 0.0843802449381 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102912891644 0.15604864568 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0593663613062 0.0819641961636 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.2329268293 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 61.2550243902 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 11.4140731707 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 40.7170731707 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.4329268293 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.9970731707 109% => 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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