The diagrams below show how houses can be protected in areas which are prone to flooding

The diagrams compare two different methods of defence for homes which are at risk of being flooded.

The key difference between the diagrams is that they show flood protection with and without a stopbank. In either case, the at-risk home is raised on stilts above ground level.

The first diagram shows how a stopbank act as a flood barrier to stop river water from flooding houses. The stopbank is a small mound next to the river that is higher than the 100-year flood level, and prevents the river from bursting its banks. Nearby houses can be build on stilts to prevent flooding from rainwater, and a floodgate beneath the stopband can be opened to allow this 'ponding' to drain off into the river.

When there is no stopbank, as shown in the second diagram, there will be nothing to stop the river from flooding. In this case, the solution is to put building on stilts. The height of the stilts is measured so that the floor of the house is 300mm above the 100-year flood level. This measurement is called the 'freeboard'.

Votes
Average: 4.9 (2 votes)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, so

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 7.0 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 1.00243902439 299% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 3.0 6.8 44% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.15609756098 158% => OK
Pronoun: 8.0 5.60731707317 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 33.7804878049 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 850.0 965.302439024 88% => OK
No of words: 182.0 196.424390244 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.67032967033 4.92477711251 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.67297393991 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28410234793 2.65546596893 86% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 106.607317073 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593406593407 0.547539520022 108% => OK
syllable_count: 235.8 283.868780488 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.8781778292 43.030603864 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 112.824112599 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 22.9334400587 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.1 5.23603664747 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => 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: 0.211656812273 0.215688989381 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0758948225662 0.103423049105 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0689588335597 0.0843802449381 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1235700252 0.15604864568 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.018203809237 0.0819641961636 22% => 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: 9.7 13.2329268293 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 78.59 61.2550243902 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.3012195122 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 11.4140731707 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 36.0 40.7170731707 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.4329268293 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => 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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