The graph below gives information about US government spending on research between 1980 and 2008

The line graph illustrates the research expenditure of US administration on five fields (health, space, energy, general science, other) from 1980 till 2008.

In a general overview, the U. S. Government spent the most in health research sector whereas the least was spent in general science.

In 1998, with regard to health research, the expenditure started with around $8 billion, this budget slightly dipped to $7 billion in 1984 and gradually continued to double the amount spent in this category in 1996, in the next four years drastically increased to $22 billion reaching its peak in 2000 before dropping to $18 billion in 2004. The US government spent around $6 billion dollars to explore space in 1998 and saw a dip in 1984 spending $5 billion, whereas the figure increased continuously reaching $14 billion in 2008.

Meanwhile, there is also an increase in the money invested into the research of energy and general science, from approximately $2.5 billion and $5 billion in 1980 to $ 5 billion and $7. 5 billion. In contrast, other being the only sector which saw a decrease in expenditure, which fell approximately from $7. 5 billion in 1980 to about $5 billion by 2008.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, so, whereas, while, in contrast, in general, with regard to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 33.7804878049 121% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 3.97073170732 151% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 965.0 965.302439024 100% => OK
No of words: 190.0 196.424390244 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07894736842 4.92477711251 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71268753763 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82591072578 2.65546596893 106% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 106.607317073 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557894736842 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 268.2 283.868780488 94% => 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: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => 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: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 94.4539864461 43.030603864 220% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 120.625 112.824112599 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.75 22.9334400587 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 5.23603664747 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 1.69756097561 766% => Less language errors wanted.
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: 0.157739282853 0.215688989381 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776494813977 0.103423049105 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0776575419742 0.0843802449381 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111528548891 0.15604864568 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0527066604947 0.0819641961636 64% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.2329268293 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 11.4140731707 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.06136585366 97% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 40.7170731707 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.4329268293 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.0658536585 127% => 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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