The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The line charted presented below show a number of leisure activities elderly people of United State take interest in between 1980 and 2010.

From basic observation, we can see that two most popular one recently are watching television and hiking, along with reading right behind. Theatre, on the other hand, lost its popularity in exchange for the sudden rise of internet surfing and reading books.

Watching television program seem to has remained constantly popular for quite a long time, going up from 60% to 70% from 1980s to 2000s and backing down to 60% in 2010s. Hiking exploded in popularity, rising sharply from a merely 20% to the top 80% in the span of around 30 years. Old people during 1990s to 2000s seemed to prefer outdoor activities such as hiking than reading. Both surfing internet and reading experienced rise in 2000s up to recent years, with internet rising sharply from below 20% to 50% and readings from 20% to 60%.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 37, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'have'.
Suggestion: have
... Watching television program seem to has remained constantly popular for quite a...
^^^
Line 5, column 161, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 2010s'.
Suggestion: in the 2010s
... 1980s to 2000s and backing down to 60% in 2010s. Hiking exploded in popularity, rising ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 293, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'during the 1990s'.
Suggestion: during the 1990s
...the span of around 30 years. Old people during 1990s to 2000s seemed to prefer outdoor activ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 431, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 2000s'.
Suggestion: in the 2000s
...g internet and reading experienced rise in 2000s up to recent years, with internet risin...
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
such as, on the other hand

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 : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 33.7804878049 112% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 3.97073170732 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 791.0 965.302439024 82% => OK
No of words: 161.0 196.424390244 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91304347826 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 3.73543355544 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38672627837 2.65546596893 90% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 106.607317073 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.652173913043 0.547539520022 119% => OK
syllable_count: 222.3 283.868780488 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

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: 24.3075532059 43.030603864 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 113.0 112.824112599 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 22.9334400587 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 5.23603664747 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 1.69756097561 236% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => 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: 0.0901984446181 0.215688989381 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0500852277822 0.103423049105 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0959392329234 0.0843802449381 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103740498096 0.15604864568 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127676947127 0.0819641961636 156% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.2329268293 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 11.4140731707 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.06136585366 102% => OK
difficult_words: 35.0 40.7170731707 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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