The diagram below shows information about the amount of money spent on alcohol and drugs Summarize the info by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The bar chart compares and contrasts data on the changes in the sales of alcohol and drugs, measured in billions of dollars, over an eighteen-year period from 1975 to 1992.
Generally speaking, despite the fact that there were fluctuations in sales for both categories, the consumption of alcohol was higher than that of drugs in this time period.
More specifically, the overall increase in sales of alcohol was from $146 billion in 1975 to $148 billion in 1992, a rise of $2 billion. In contrast, drugs sales rose from $35 to $98 over the same period of time, slightly less than a threefold increase. One further point to note is that both alcohol and drugs reached a peak of $186 billion and $102 billion in 1980 respectively. The biggest difference in sales between alcohol and drugs was in 1975 where sales were $146 billion and $35 billion respectively, a difference of $111 billion.

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Average: 2.6 (2 votes)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...in 1975 to 48 billion in 1992, a rise of billion. In contrast, drugs sales rose f...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...gs sales rose from 5 to 8 over the same period of time, slightly less than a threefold increas...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 33.7804878049 95% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 719.0 965.302439024 74% => OK
No of words: 152.0 196.424390244 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73026315789 4.92477711251 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.73543355544 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78586378882 2.65546596893 105% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 106.607317073 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539473684211 0.547539520022 99% => OK
syllable_count: 210.6 283.868780488 74% => 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: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 8.94146341463 67% => 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: 25.0 22.4926829268 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.8374122384 43.030603864 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 119.833333333 112.824112599 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3333333333 22.9334400587 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5 5.23603664747 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => 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: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0504273737808 0.215688989381 23% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0295843062179 0.103423049105 29% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0168200978152 0.0843802449381 20% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0392698832743 0.15604864568 25% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0109054764583 0.0819641961636 13% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.2329268293 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 61.2550243902 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 11.4140731707 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.06136585366 102% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 40.7170731707 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.4329268293 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.9970731707 109% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.0658536585 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 11.2359550562 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 9
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