The chart below shows the percentage of total US population aged 65 and over between 1900 and 2000.

Essay topics:

The chart below shows the percentage of total US population aged 65 and over between 1900 and 2000.

The given chart illustrates the data about the proportion of the USA citizens who were aged 65 and above over a 100-year period from 1900 to 2000. An overall view indicates that the number of elderly people experienced an upward trend during this century.

Turning to age categories, the number of population aged 65-74 has increased smoothly, starting at 2.9 percent in 1900, reaching to 6.1 per cent in 1960. Between 1960 to 1970, the number of this group remained stable but then, continued its rising trend till 1990 by 7.3 per cent. In 2000, this figure has declined to 6.5 per cent.

Looking at two other age group, the proportion of people aged 75-84 has increased continuously from 1900 to 1990, however, this figure has fallen down in 2000 and reached 4.4 percent.

The third age group is consist of people who are 85 years old and higher. As can be seen, in all mention years, this group dedicated the lowest number but experienced a similar increasing tread the same as other groups. In 1900, the percentage of this group was only 0.2 per cent while it has increased to 1.5 percent in 2000.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 42, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...he third age group is consist of people who are 85 years old and higher. As can be seen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, look, then, third, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 5.60731707317 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 33.7804878049 98% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 925.0 965.302439024 96% => OK
No of words: 195.0 196.424390244 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74358974359 4.92477711251 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73687570622 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3698411912 2.65546596893 89% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 106.607317073 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.547539520022 112% => OK
syllable_count: 251.1 283.868780488 88% => 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: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.2044341156 43.030603864 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.777777778 112.824112599 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 22.9334400587 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22222222222 5.23603664747 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
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: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211612802385 0.215688989381 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0916274968845 0.103423049105 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0782628842972 0.0843802449381 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131960920565 0.15604864568 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295207582254 0.0819641961636 36% => 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: 11.7 13.2329268293 88% => 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: 10.21 11.4140731707 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 40.7170731707 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => 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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