The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport.

Essay topics:

The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four different modes of transport.

The line graph illustrates how the products were transported in the UK during period of 28 years from 1974 to 2002.

Overall, it can be seen that the primary means of transportation in the UK was that of road. All the four modes of transport increased over the period, apart from rail. Rail transport saw some fluctuations.

The amount of goods transported by road was around 70 million tonnes in 1974, then it increased steadily, apart a slight dip in 1982, and reached almost 100 million tones in 2002. The water transport rose during the period of 1974 and 1994 from 40million tones to 50million tones, then after a small dip in 1998, it reached approximately 70 million tones.

The rail transport started at 40 million tones in 1974, but then declined steadily till 1994 at around 30 million tones and then rose back up to its starting point. The quantity of merchandise shipped through pipeline started with a negligible figure and then it rose significantly to reach just over 20 million tones by the end of the period.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ed approximately 70 million tones. The rail transport started at 40 million to...
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Line 13, column 166, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...hen rose back up to its starting point. The quantity of merchandise shipped through...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, then, apart from

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 33.7804878049 110% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 3.97073170732 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 865.0 965.302439024 90% => OK
No of words: 179.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.83240223464 4.92477711251 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6324885456 2.65546596893 99% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 106.607317073 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564245810056 0.547539520022 103% => OK
syllable_count: 234.0 283.868780488 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 3.36585365854 30% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4184730909 43.030603864 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.125 112.824112599 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.375 22.9334400587 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 5.23603664747 69% => OK
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: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254864571416 0.215688989381 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129891244374 0.103423049105 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648379820515 0.0843802449381 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176471121241 0.15604864568 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760309647159 0.0819641961636 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.2329268293 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.53 61.2550243902 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.3012195122 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 11.4140731707 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.06136585366 94% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 40.7170731707 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.4329268293 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => 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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