The charts below give information about USA marriage and divorce rates between 1970 and 2000, and the marital status of adult America in two of the years.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given two bar charts show how many marriages and divorces in America, and the marital status of the whole states in a thirty-year period, from 1970 to 2000.
As can be seen from the graphs, people who got married were far more than those who divorced in all the recorded years, but the gap between these two groups was narrowing. Also, while there were fewer people stepped into marriage throughout this period, those who remained single were increasing in number.
In both 1970 and 1980, there were just 2.5 million marriages, but this number dipped to about 2.3 million and continued to drop, touching at 2 million in 2000, which was a 50,0000 decrease. Turning into divorces, the numbers in most of the years were at around 1 million except for 1980, which was exceptionally reached at almost 1.5 million.
For the marital status of adult Americans, most people chose to marry in both 1970 (70%), but there was a markable declining (over10%) in three decades. While the proportions of singled people and divorced couples saw a considerable increase (6% to 8%), there were fewer people widowed within this time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, so, while, except for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 7.0 157% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.15609756098 158% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 33.7804878049 92% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 930.0 965.302439024 96% => OK
No of words: 191.0 196.424390244 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86910994764 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39527508365 2.65546596893 90% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 106.607317073 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612565445026 0.547539520022 112% => OK
syllable_count: 264.6 283.868780488 93% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.482926829268 828% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.4926829268 120% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 16.6635371211 43.030603864 39% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 132.857142857 112.824112599 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2857142857 22.9334400587 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 5.23603664747 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
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: 0.137241049584 0.215688989381 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709475044636 0.103423049105 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713287433729 0.0843802449381 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100686596513 0.15604864568 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0757098835595 0.0819641961636 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.2329268293 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 61.2550243902 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.3012195122 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 11.4140731707 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.06136585366 106% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 40.7170731707 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.9970731707 116% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.0658536585 117% => 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.