The bar chart illustrates data about the marriage and divorce rates from 1970 to 2000 and the marital status in 1970 and 2000 in the USA

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The bar chart illustrates data about the marriage and divorce rates from 1970 to 2000 and the marital status in 1970 and 2000 in the USA.

The bar chart illustrates data about the marriage and divorce rates from 1970 to 2000 and the marital status in 1970 and 2000 in the USA.

Overall, the marriage rates went down over the period shown, while the number of divorces fluctuated. The percentage of unmarried and divorced adults saw an increase where the proportion of married and widowed decreased.

The number of marriages hovered between around 2.5 million to about 2 million over the entire period and the figures declined by .5 million in 2000. The divorce rates started about 1 million and increased to just below 1.5 million in 1980 and finally dropped again to 1 million at the end.

The proportion of married and widowed adults experienced a slump with the former decreasing from 70% to just below 60% in 2000, and the later dropped from nearly 10% to slightly above 3%. In contrast, the percentage of never married and divorced people climbed up to nearly 20% and just below 10% respectively.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 150, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...figures declined by .5 million in 2000. The divorce rates started about 1 million a...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...opped again to 1 million at the end. The proportion of married and widowed adult...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, while, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 0.0 7.0 0% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 6.8 176% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 0.0 5.60731707317 0% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => 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: 807.0 965.302439024 84% => OK
No of words: 165.0 196.424390244 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89090909091 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58402463422 3.73543355544 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48942667678 2.65546596893 94% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 106.607317073 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.547539520022 97% => OK
syllable_count: 234.0 283.868780488 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 3.36585365854 30% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

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: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.3739380998 43.030603864 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 115.285714286 112.824112599 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 22.9334400587 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85714285714 5.23603664747 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.413834752002 0.215688989381 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.209568307609 0.103423049105 203% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.324210567825 0.0843802449381 384% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.326131455997 0.15604864568 209% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.389154450947 0.0819641961636 475% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 11.4140731707 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 35.0 40.7170731707 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.4329268293 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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