Overpopulation of urban areas has led to numerous problems. Identify one or two serious ones and suggest ways that governments and individuals can tackle these problems.

Many countries of the world are currently experiencing problems caused by rapidly growing populations in urban areas, and both governments and individuals have a duty to find ways to overcome these problems.

Overpopulation can lead to overcrowding and poor quality housing in many large cities. Poorly heated or damp housing could cause significant health problems, resulting in illness, such as bronchitis or pneumonia. Another serious consequence of overcrowding is a rising crime rate as poor living conditions may lead young people in particular to take desperate measures and turn to crime or drugs.

In terms of solutions, I believe the government should be largely responsible. Firstly, it is vital that the state provides essential housing and healthcare for all its citizens. Secondly, setting up community projects to help foster more community spirit and help keep young people off the street is a good idea. For example, youth clubs or evening classes for teenagers would keep them occupied. Finally, more effective policing of inner city areas would also be beneficial.

Naturally, individuals should also try to address these problems. One way is to put pressure on the government to ensure they tackle the problems by, for instance, forming action groups to lobby the government and request intervention and adequate funding. They could also form Neighbourhood Watch areas to try and help reduce the high levels of crime.

Therefore, it is clear that the problems caused by overpopulation in urban areas are very serious. Yet if governments and individuals share a collective responsibility, then it may well become possible to offer some solutions.

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Average: 8.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
... also form Neighbourhood Watch areas to try and help reduce the high levels of crime. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, as to, for example, for instance, in particular, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 8.36945812808 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 5.94088669951 34% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 20.9802955665 57% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 31.9359605911 91% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1417.0 1207.87684729 117% => OK
No of words: 261.0 242.827586207 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42911877395 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00235517717 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 139.433497537 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.64367816092 0.580463131201 111% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 379.143842365 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 3.65517241379 27% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.5024630542 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.128754104 50.4703680194 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.214285714 104.977214359 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6428571429 20.9669160288 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0714285714 7.25397266985 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.12807881773 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 2.75862068966 290% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244068052582 0.242375264174 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0717210014299 0.0925447433944 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067197942249 0.071462118173 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128799292172 0.151781067708 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0683047247141 0.0609392437508 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 12.6369458128 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.1260098522 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.9458128079 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 11.5310837438 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.32886699507 112% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 55.0591133005 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.3980295567 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 88.8888888889 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 80.0 Out of 90
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