The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by local authorities in Someland in 1980, 1990 and 2000.

Essay topics:

The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by local authorities in Someland in 1980, 1990 and 2000.

The three pie charts compare the percentage of expenditure by local authorities in Someland from 1980 to 2000. From the general perspective, different trends could be observed, including a growth of transportation and environmental services, a reduction of higher education, K-12 education, and health and human resources over the period.

In 1980, higher education and K-12 education made up the biggest the proportion of expenditure, in which the highest percentage of higher education at 35%, followed by K-12 education and transportation. After ten years, higher education reached a peak of 45% in expenditure rate. Meanwhile, health and human resources, and environmental services witnessed a slight increase of 6% and 1% respectively in the proportion of expenditure, in contrast, K-12 education and transportation dropped significantly to 25% and 16% respectively.

From 1990 to 2000, despite a small drop, higher education continued at the top of expenditure rate at 40%, similarly, K-12 education, and health and human resources experienced a steady reduction. Nevertheless, as K-12 education, and health and human resources rose, environmental services continued its rise from the previous period and transportation grew considerably to 22% in the percentage of expenditure by local authorities.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, nevertheless, similarly, so, while, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 7.0 14% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 6.8 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 1.0 5.60731707317 18% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 33.7804878049 104% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 3.97073170732 479% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1119.0 965.302439024 116% => OK
No of words: 193.0 196.424390244 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.79792746114 4.92477711251 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.52456545967 2.65546596893 133% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 106.607317073 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.512953367876 0.547539520022 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 335.7 283.868780488 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.45097560976 117% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.482926829268 828% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 3.36585365854 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.4926829268 120% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.5692740757 43.030603864 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.857142857 112.824112599 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5714285714 22.9334400587 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.28571428571 5.23603664747 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => 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: 0.108655094314 0.215688989381 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0797464039565 0.103423049105 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.152473658071 0.0843802449381 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0945314952955 0.15604864568 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0872744003385 0.0819641961636 106% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.7 13.2329268293 149% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 61.2550243902 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 6.51609756098 224% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.3012195122 146% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.66 11.4140731707 146% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.06136585366 109% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 40.7170731707 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.9970731707 116% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.0658536585 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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