cambridge 6 test 4
The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 200, and the marital status of adult Americans in two of the years.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparison where relevant.
The first chart indicates about the quantities of marriages and divorces in the period between 1970 and 2000 and the second one portrays the proportion of mature people in the United States in sectors of never married, married, widowed and divorces in 1970 and 2000. Overall, there was a slight reduction in the marriage rate while the number of divorces fluctuated in a span of 30 years. The quantity of married people gained the highest percentage while the widowed and divorced persons took up the low proportion in both 1970 and 2000.
It is clear from the first chart that the number of marriages stayed the same at 2,5 millions in 1970 and 1980. However, this one decreased gradually to 2,25 millions in 1990 and 2 millions in 2000. In the contrast, the quantity of divorces climbed up from 1 million in 1970 to 1,4 millions in 1980. After that period, this number reduced to 1,1 millions in 1990 and 1 million in 2000.
As it can be seen from the second chart that the percentage of the married achieved the highest one with 70% in 1970 and about 60% in 2000. Never married sector ranked the second place in both 1970 and 2000, 12% and 20% respectively. The amount of Widowed and Divorces had the opposite trend in 1970 and 2000. Particularly, the proportion of widowed decreased significantly from 8% to 2% in comparison between 1970 and 2000. The divorces had the upward trend between 1970 and 2000, 5% and 9% respectively.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 6.8 265% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 33.7804878049 148% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1187.0 965.302439024 123% => OK
No of words: 253.0 196.424390244 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69169960474 4.92477711251 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 3.73543355544 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53908810305 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 106.607317073 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426877470356 0.547539520022 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 322.2 283.868780488 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 8.94146341463 134% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7780490444 43.030603864 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.9166666667 112.824112599 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 22.9334400587 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.08333333333 5.23603664747 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 1.13902439024 263% => Less 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: 0.138716830351 0.215688989381 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651609535577 0.103423049105 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418922178563 0.0843802449381 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103075034239 0.15604864568 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431446025201 0.0819641961636 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.2329268293 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.54 61.2550243902 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.3012195122 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 11.4140731707 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.17 8.06136585366 89% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 40.7170731707 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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