The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given line graph provides information about the most popular activities among the retired people in the United States between 1980 and the present day.
Overall, it is clearly seen, that the popularity of all activities, except theatre, has risen. In addition, the portion of those who are involved in hiking, reading and internet surfing has grown considerably, while the percentage of TV and theatre consumers has changed slightly.
The fraction of people that reads, hikes or surfs the internet among the elderly stood at 30, 20 and 5 per cent in 1980, respectively, being the least popular activities for this group. Then, the figures for hiking and surfing the internet doubled during the next decade, while reading rose only for 10 per cent. After that hiking and the internet consumption trends remained the same, in contrast to reading, which halved in the next ten years. In the last 10 years, the portion of hikers increased by 20 per cent, becoming the most popular entertainment, reading and surfing the internet experienced a similar rise on 35 per cent each.
At the same time, TV had the highest value of 60 per cent in 1980. In the first decade, it increased moderately, in oppose to theatre, which data fell from 50 to 30 per cent. Then TV hit the top of 70 per cent in 2000 and dropped to 65 per cent in the last decade, unlike theatre, which popularity grew slowly to about 45 per cent in 2010.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, then, while, in addition, in contrast, in contrast 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 : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.97073170732 176% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1179.0 965.302439024 122% => OK
No of words: 248.0 196.424390244 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75403225806 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 3.73543355544 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50765931277 2.65546596893 94% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 106.607317073 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560483870968 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 341.1 283.868780488 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 3.36585365854 238% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4851824746 43.030603864 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.9 112.824112599 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8 22.9334400587 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.23603664747 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0699960864016 0.215688989381 32% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0349931237636 0.103423049105 34% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607799126091 0.0843802449381 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0645767289962 0.15604864568 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.079219524844 0.0819641961636 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 61.2550243902 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 11.4140731707 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 40.7170731707 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.4329268293 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, then, while, in addition, in contrast, in contrast 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 : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.97073170732 176% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1179.0 965.302439024 122% => OK
No of words: 248.0 196.424390244 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75403225806 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 3.73543355544 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50765931277 2.65546596893 94% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 106.607317073 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560483870968 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 341.1 283.868780488 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 3.36585365854 238% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4851824746 43.030603864 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.9 112.824112599 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8 22.9334400587 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.23603664747 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0699960864016 0.215688989381 32% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0349931237636 0.103423049105 34% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607799126091 0.0843802449381 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0645767289962 0.15604864568 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.079219524844 0.0819641961636 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 61.2550243902 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 11.4140731707 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 40.7170731707 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.4329268293 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.