The chart below shows the spending in million dollars per household in the US on five different products in 2010 and 2014 Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The bar chart illustrates how much per household in the US spent on five different categories in two years (2010, and 2014).

Overall, it can be seen that all five products experienced an upward trend, except for spending on clothes and books. Notably, American households spent the most on food, while the lowest expenditure was recorded on books.

Looking at the chart in greater detail, in 2010, the American spent about $3,700 on food, which was significantly higher than spending on smartphones, at $2,000. By 2014, expenditure on food peaked at about $4,400, while that of smartphones increased significantly, reaching second place with the figure of $2,700. Likewise, toiletries registered a slight growth in their budget allocation, rising from about $1,800 to only $2,000 over the same period.

In terms of the remaining commodities, the second highest amount of money that households in the US spent on clothes, with about $2,000 in 2010, compared to only $1,000 spent on books. Expenditure on clothes remained relatively unchanged, whereas books witnessed a double decrease to $500 in 2014.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, likewise, look, second, whereas, while, except for

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 : 2.0 6.8 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
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: 915.0 965.302439024 95% => OK
No of words: 176.0 196.424390244 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19886363636 4.92477711251 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81634264584 2.65546596893 106% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 106.607317073 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619318181818 0.547539520022 113% => OK
syllable_count: 257.4 283.868780488 91% => 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: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.3692300863 43.030603864 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 114.375 112.824112599 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 22.9334400587 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.75 5.23603664747 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 1.69756097561 471% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
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: 0.156600791949 0.215688989381 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712388613543 0.103423049105 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0761909181369 0.0843802449381 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116378250165 0.15604864568 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839398358302 0.0819641961636 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.2329268293 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 61.2550243902 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.3012195122 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 11.4140731707 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.06136585366 104% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 40.7170731707 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.4329268293 105% => 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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