Marriages in America

Essay topics:

Marriages in America

The first bar chart gives information about the number of marriages and divorces in US throughout 30 years, beginning in 1970. The second graph illustrates the marital status of mature citizens in America between 1970 and 2000.

Overall, it could be seen from the first chart that number of marriages gradually declined while divorces fluctuated and remained relatively stable over a period of 30 years. Simultaneously, the proportion of adults who got married was the highest in four marital status investigated and this number slightly fell down from 1970 to 2000.

In 1970, there was 2,5 million of marriages compared to 1 million of divorces. The number of marriages remained stable in 1980 then steadily went down to about 2,3 million in 1990 and 2 million in 2000. Meanwhile, divorces cases considerably increased to almost 1,5 million in 1980 then dropped to over 1 million in 1980 and went back to 1 million in 2000.

The marital status of American was surveyed in four different types in which the percentage of married people was the highest of precisely 70% in 1970, then moderately dipped to 60% in 2000. Came in the second place was the ratio of people who never married with about 15% in 1970, this number slightly went up to 20% in 2000. The maximum proportion of widows and divorces were relatively similar with almost 10% and 4% in 1970, respectively then in 2000, the number of widows slightly fell down to about 6% whilst divorces significantly rose up to nearly 10%.

Votes
Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, then, while, in the second place

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.0 100% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 33.7804878049 181% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1244.0 965.302439024 129% => OK
No of words: 254.0 196.424390244 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89763779528 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 3.73543355544 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64255065536 2.65546596893 100% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 106.607317073 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468503937008 0.547539520022 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 351.0 283.868780488 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.36585365854 30% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.4926829268 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.853704624 43.030603864 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.4 112.824112599 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4 22.9334400587 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 5.23603664747 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 3.70975609756 216% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114390255948 0.215688989381 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0572831961619 0.103423049105 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0586371678308 0.0843802449381 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0853579491873 0.15604864568 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699231392849 0.0819641961636 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.2329268293 108% => 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: 11.44 11.4140731707 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.06136585366 94% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 40.7170731707 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.9970731707 109% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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