Marriages in America
The first bar chart compares the number of marriages and divorces in America over a period of 30 years, beginning in 1970. The second chart illustrates the proportion of adult US citizens according to their marital status in the years 1970 and 2000.
Overall, the number of marriages fell over the period, although the second chart shows that the percentage of couples who were married remained significantly higher than the other categories.
In 1970 and 1980, there were 2.5 million married couples in the USA. However, the figure fell to about 2.3 million in 1990 and then to 2 million in 2000. The same period witnessed a fluctuating trend for divorcees. From 1 million in 1970, the number rose to almost 1.5 million in 1980 before falling steadily to 1 million in 2000.
The vast majority of Americans were married. The percentage fell, however, from 70% in 1970 to 60% in 2000. In contrast, the figures for those who were ‘never married’ and those who were ‘divorced’ both rose between these two years, from 15% to 20%, and from 3% to about 10% respectively. Finally, the proportion of ‘widowed’ declined from 9% in 1970 to 6% in 2000.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, then, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 33.7804878049 124% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 983.0 965.302439024 102% => OK
No of words: 198.0 196.424390244 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96464646465 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75116612262 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99256382064 2.65546596893 113% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 106.607317073 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530303030303 0.547539520022 97% => OK
syllable_count: 276.3 283.868780488 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.33902439024 230% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.5582135365 43.030603864 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3636363636 112.824112599 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 22.9334400587 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90909090909 5.23603664747 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.09268292683 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0807315335395 0.215688989381 37% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0336392925681 0.103423049105 33% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0818305622262 0.0843802449381 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0679441389062 0.15604864568 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0749657489239 0.0819641961636 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.2329268293 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 61.2550243902 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.3012195122 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 11.4140731707 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 40.7170731707 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => 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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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.