The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.

Essay topics:

The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.

The bar chart compares the percentage of shares of expenditures for five main categories, including food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in 2009.

From the general perspective, the clear data could be observed that the majority of countries' expenditure was on housing, except in Japan, while the minority of spending was on health care, except in the United States.

It is evident from the information provided that the United States was the highest proportion of expenditure on housing at over a quarter, followed by transportation and food, while spending on clothing was the lowest rate at under 5%. Similarly, the most percentage of expenditure of people in Canada and the United Kingdom spent on housing at 21% and 24$ respectively and health care was the less of spending, both areas stayed at under 5%. Exceptionally, the Japanese paid the most money on food at roundly 23%.

In the period 2009, Japan was at the top of the proportion of expenditure on food to compare with the other regions, the United States was the lowest. Nevertheless, American's expenditure rate on housing was the highest. Meanwhile, Canada's spending rate on transportation (20%) was higher than the others. Surprisingly, the Japanese paid less money for health care at around 2%, compared with 7% in the United States. Lastly, all countries spent a little money on clothing, the average at around 5%.

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 354, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$24'.
Suggestion: $24
...ted Kingdom spent on housing at 21% and 24$ respectively and health care was the le...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
lastly, nevertheless, similarly, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 7.0 157% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 33.7804878049 142% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1229.0 965.302439024 127% => OK
No of words: 239.0 196.424390244 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14225941423 4.92477711251 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 3.73543355544 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92441382418 2.65546596893 110% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 106.607317073 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489539748954 0.547539520022 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 374.4 283.868780488 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.33902439024 184% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => 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: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.3629414659 43.030603864 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.9 112.824112599 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9 22.9334400587 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 5.23603664747 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => 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: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280634116262 0.215688989381 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121338258421 0.103423049105 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.137015373097 0.0843802449381 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22689529708 0.15604864568 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.156815289028 0.0819641961636 191% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.2329268293 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 61.2550243902 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.3012195122 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 11.4140731707 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.06136585366 105% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 40.7170731707 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.4329268293 175% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.0658536585 117% => 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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