The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given chart illustrates how the costs of copper, nickel and zinc varied in each month of 2014.
Generally, all metals’ prices experienced several fluctuations during 2014. Besides, while the prices were high at the beginning of the year, significant drops were seen in the summer and autumn, followed by a slight recovery during winter.
Starting at a 6% increase in price, Nickel was the metal with the highest proportion change in cost in January. In the following months, although both nickel and copper witnessed a price decline, the decrease in nickel was more noticeable than that of copper. Moreover, in June, all metals’ cost reached their bottom in terms of percentage variation with a decrease of -3% for nickel, -1% for zinc and -0.5% for copper.
Regarding the other haft of 2014, there were growths of three metals’ prices in July, followed by a stable period of three months when the proportion changes remained unchanged. Finally, despite some minor drops in the figures for three metals in October, they all recovered at the end of the year.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 300, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y all recovered at the end of the year.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, if, moreover, regarding, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 33.7804878049 98% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 895.0 965.302439024 93% => OK
No of words: 178.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02808988764 4.92477711251 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65262427087 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54062435727 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 106.607317073 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601123595506 0.547539520022 110% => OK
syllable_count: 260.1 283.868780488 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.66169002 43.030603864 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.875 112.824112599 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.25 22.9334400587 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.23603664747 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => 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: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175140603226 0.215688989381 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875860769338 0.103423049105 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622490911564 0.0843802449381 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110349260009 0.15604864568 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476410878713 0.0819641961636 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 61.2550243902 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 11.4140731707 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.06136585366 107% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 40.7170731707 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 300, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y all recovered at the end of the year.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, if, moreover, regarding, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 33.7804878049 98% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 895.0 965.302439024 93% => OK
No of words: 178.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02808988764 4.92477711251 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65262427087 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54062435727 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 106.607317073 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601123595506 0.547539520022 110% => OK
syllable_count: 260.1 283.868780488 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.66169002 43.030603864 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.875 112.824112599 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.25 22.9334400587 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.23603664747 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => 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: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175140603226 0.215688989381 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875860769338 0.103423049105 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622490911564 0.0843802449381 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110349260009 0.15604864568 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476410878713 0.0819641961636 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 61.2550243902 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 11.4140731707 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.06136585366 107% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 40.7170731707 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.