The charts below show US spending patterns between 1966 and 1996.

Essay topics:

The charts below show US spending patterns between 1966 and 1996.

The two pie charts illustrate the spending method in the United States between 1966 and 1996.

Overall, computers contributed the least to the expenses of Americans at the beginning of the period, while food made up the biggest cost. In comparison, in 1996, cars became the largest expenditure of United States and books made up the smallest part of spending.

Computers accounted for 1% of United States' payments in 1966 and experienced a shoot up to 10% in 1996. Spending on eating out doubled from 7% in 1966 to 14% in 1996. Cars accounted for 23% at the beginning of the period with 23% and rise sharply to 45% and made up the first biggest item of Americans in 1996.

In 1966, the highest percentage of household expenses in US was food with the figure of 44% , dropped to 14% in 1996. Pay outs from gas and furniture were 9% and 16% respectively, but both fell slightly to 8% at the end of the period. Spending in books accounted for 6% in 1966 and declined to 1% in 1996.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, so, while

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 : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 0.0 3.15609756098 0% => OK
Pronoun: 1.0 5.60731707317 18% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 33.7804878049 133% => 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: 808.0 965.302439024 84% => OK
No of words: 179.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.51396648045 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55594199977 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 106.607317073 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508379888268 0.547539520022 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 224.1 283.868780488 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.6337760126 43.030603864 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.7777777778 112.824112599 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8888888889 22.9334400587 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.33333333333 5.23603664747 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.09268292683 122% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250294469502 0.215688989381 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126854727038 0.103423049105 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111868135064 0.0843802449381 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181411593929 0.15604864568 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109942598069 0.0819641961636 134% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 13.2329268293 74% => 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: 8.88 11.4140731707 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.06136585366 93% => OK
difficult_words: 33.0 40.7170731707 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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