The pie charts below give information about the household expenditure of an average US family in different years

Essay topics:

The pie charts below give information about the household expenditure of an average US family in different years.

Given are the graphs illustrating the average household expenditure in the US in both 1970 and 2004.

Overview, it is clear from the first chart that childcare was the category receiving the least expenditure of the total group. Remarkably, people tend to spend the most on the mortgage from the second graph.

In 1970, the percentage of the mortgage was highest, at 26%, while the figure for food and clothing was slightly lower, at 25% and 22% respectively. In terms of transport and entertainment, they saw the same expenditure (13%); however, childcare occupied only 1% which was the smallest compared to the other items.

On the second chart, the mortgage was also the dominant choice and it evenly rose twofold. In 2004, while mortgage experienced an increase, the other household expenditure including clothing, food, and transport saw a slight lull which reached 10%, 12% and 5% respectively. However, entertainment followed by a period of stability after thirty-four years. Childcare was negatively correlated which increased rapidly by 9% to 10%.

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Average: 9 (12 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, second, so, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 33.7804878049 62% => 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: 897.0 965.302439024 93% => OK
No of words: 169.0 196.424390244 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30769230769 4.92477711251 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.60555127546 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95874555749 2.65546596893 111% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 106.607317073 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627218934911 0.547539520022 115% => OK
syllable_count: 260.1 283.868780488 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.9925268805 43.030603864 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6666666667 112.824112599 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7777777778 22.9334400587 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.23603664747 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131253071398 0.215688989381 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0565675409552 0.103423049105 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623626795976 0.0843802449381 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0967937008054 0.15604864568 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0693642953896 0.0819641961636 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.2329268293 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 61.2550243902 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.3012195122 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 11.4140731707 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.06136585366 105% => OK
difficult_words: 42.0 40.7170731707 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => 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: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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