If countries are serious about solving traffic problems, they should tax private cars very heavily and use the money to provide free or very cheap rail travel.

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If countries are serious about solving traffic problems, they should tax private cars very heavily and use the money to provide free or very cheap rail travel.

Congestion is one of the problems risen from rapid development of urbanisation. A nominated solution is utilising capital, funded from placing heavy tax on privately owned cars, to develop low-cost public transport system. It is worthwhile to perform a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether this solution is achievable.

On the one hand, restricting number of vehicles by imposing hefty tax can potentially be effective. Increasing tax means that the total cost of travelling using private cars will also increase thus discouraging people from using cars which effectively reducing the total o...

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Average: 8.1 (3 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1661.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23974763407 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96832854238 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596214511041 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.441998738 49.4020404114 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.642857143 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6428571429 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16587303369 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493153425689 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057632397584 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105628503282 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0540027658498 0.056905535591 95% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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thus discouraging people from using cars which effectively reducing the total of cars in traffic.
thus discouraging people from using cars which is effectively reducing the total of cars in traffic.
thus discouraging people from using cars which will effectively reduce the total of cars in traffic.

flaws:
The sentence of the last paragraph is too long.

Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 317 350
No. of Characters: 1618 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.22 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.104 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.9 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.643 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.204 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.094 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5