Marriages and divorces

Essay topics:

Marriages and divorces

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

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

Votes
Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... in Americans between 1970 and 2000. it was clear that there was a fall in the ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... rate remained stable in 1980, however. it dropped down to 2 million in 2000. On t...
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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: 40.0 33.7804878049 118% => 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: 804.0 965.302439024 83% => OK
No of words: 181.0 196.424390244 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.44198895028 4.92477711251 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66791821706 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30172668407 2.65546596893 87% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 106.607317073 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486187845304 0.547539520022 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 224.1 283.868780488 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.45097560976 83% => 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: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.4692830173 43.030603864 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.4 112.824112599 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1 22.9334400587 79% => 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: 0.205514969556 0.215688989381 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103223776146 0.103423049105 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126203297609 0.0843802449381 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129157356809 0.15604864568 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101396839107 0.0819641961636 124% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 13.2329268293 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 87.05 61.2550243902 142% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 5.6 10.3012195122 54% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.18 11.4140731707 72% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.8 8.06136585366 84% => OK
difficult_words: 26.0 40.7170731707 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => 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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