The chart below shows information about changes in average house prices in the five different cities between 1990 and 2002 compared with the average house prices in 1989.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar graph illustrates the movement of house prices in five major cities from 1990 to 2002 as compared to their average price in 1989. The cities mentioned in the graph were New York, Madrid, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and London and units were measured in percentage.
To illustrate better, the time period was divided into two halves, from 1990 to 1995 and 1996 to 2002. In the first group, growth in price was not impressive. Of the five, New York, Tokyo, and London showed depreciation in their home’s monetary value. The latter two cities showed the greatest loss with prices going down to as much as minus 8 percent. Meanwhile, Madrid and Frankfurt, slightly improved their house prices by about 1-2%, respectively. The second group showed a more impressive growth, some gaining double of what they have lost in the first half. However, Frankfurt’s prices remained at the bottom of the chart with minus 5%.
New York and London displayed the most considerable movement with having a negative worth during the first half then moving up in the latter half with an increase of more than 5 to 10%. Although Tokyo remained on the negative side of the chart, it has also shown improvement from -8% to -5% at the end of the period.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, second, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 0.0 3.15609756098 0% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 33.7804878049 118% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1032.0 965.302439024 107% => OK
No of words: 213.0 196.424390244 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84507042254 4.92477711251 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82027741392 3.73543355544 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54673956869 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 106.607317073 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596244131455 0.547539520022 109% => OK
syllable_count: 296.1 283.868780488 104% => 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: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.8646414055 43.030603864 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8181818182 112.824112599 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3636363636 22.9334400587 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.09090909091 5.23603664747 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => 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: 0.24015424174 0.215688989381 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0947215214853 0.103423049105 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977749304409 0.0843802449381 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163642316474 0.15604864568 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0910703413145 0.0819641961636 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.2329268293 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 61.2550243902 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.3012195122 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 11.4140731707 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.06136585366 99% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 40.7170731707 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.