Marriages and divorces

Essay topics:

Marriages and divorces

The first bar chart shows changes the number of marriages and divorces in the USA in 1970 and 2000. The second bar chart shows the percentage of marital status of adults in Americans between 1970 and 2000.

it is clear that there was a fall in the number of marriages in the USA from 1970 to 2000. The majority of adult Americans were married in both years, but the proportion of single adults was higher in 2000.

In 1970, the number of marriages and divorces were 2.5 millions and 1 millions respectively. The marriage rate remained stable in 1980, however. it dropped down to 2 millions in 2000. On the other hand, the divorce rate peak in 1980, nearly 1.5 millions, before falling back to 1 millions at the end of period
The married figure had reached to 70% in 1970 and fell by 10% in 2000. By contrast, the percentage figure of single adult rose to 20% in 2000, which is much higher than 1970. The proportion of widowed americans was slightly lower in 2000.

Votes
Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.0 100% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => 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: 796.0 965.302439024 82% => OK
No of words: 176.0 196.424390244 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.52272727273 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35463210616 2.65546596893 89% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 106.607317073 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.547539520022 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 221.4 283.868780488 78% => 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: 9.0 4.33902439024 207% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.4926829268 76% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.5043371228 43.030603864 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.6 112.824112599 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 22.9334400587 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 5.23603664747 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
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: 0.214864477426 0.215688989381 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105546869993 0.103423049105 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126572351419 0.0843802449381 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135959570934 0.15604864568 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107751509788 0.0819641961636 131% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 13.2329268293 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 79.6 61.2550243902 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 10.3012195122 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.64 11.4140731707 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.99 8.06136585366 87% => OK
difficult_words: 28.0 40.7170731707 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.9970731707 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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