Free time activities of the elderly in The United States from 1980 to the present
The line graph illustrates some activities for the elderly during leisure time in the United States From 1990s to 2010s.Overall, the percentages of some free time activities such as hiking, reading, watching TV, and surfing the internet had increased, while watching theatre was decline slightly. Moreover, the majority of elderly people in the US more likely to trek in the nature than others activities, making the highest proportion in the last years.
In the 1980s, the most US’s older people enjoy to watching TV and theatre during spare time, becoming the biggest percentages with 60% and 50% accordingly. However, browsing the internet became the least percentages just above one in ten. In the 1990s, the figure of reading and hiking rose gradually and reached the same level with 40% and going to the theatre became more popular.
When it came to 2000s, reading saw a dramatic drop in popularity to a fifth and the number of people doing other activities showed upward trends. Furthermore, the percentages of US older citizens who likely to attend a theater performance passed the reading curve, increasing rapidly toward the end of century also hiking, reading, and internet browsing rose significantly to 80%, 60%, and 50% respectively. However, watching TV has been decreasing in popularity and still the second most popular activity nowadays amongst this group at the end of the century.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'In the 1980s'.
Suggestion: In the 1980s
... highest proportion in the last years. In 1980s, the most US’s older people enjoy to wa...
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Line 3, column 235, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'In the 1990s'.
Suggestion: In the 1990s
...east percentages just above one in ten. In 1990s, the figure of reading and hiking rose ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, so, still, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 7.0 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 6.8 147% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 33.7804878049 95% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1178.0 965.302439024 122% => OK
No of words: 226.0 196.424390244 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21238938053 4.92477711251 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 3.73543355544 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66873956815 2.65546596893 100% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 106.607317073 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597345132743 0.547539520022 109% => OK
syllable_count: 357.3 283.868780488 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.482926829268 621% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.4926829268 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4519146264 43.030603864 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.888888889 112.824112599 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1111111111 22.9334400587 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.77777777778 5.23603664747 187% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168951032812 0.215688989381 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.071199591903 0.103423049105 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106669202072 0.0843802449381 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136125342036 0.15604864568 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132648058171 0.0819641961636 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.2329268293 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 61.2550243902 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.3012195122 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 11.4140731707 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 40.7170731707 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.4329268293 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.9970731707 109% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.0658536585 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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