The graph below shows changes in global food and oil prices between 2000 and 2011

The line graph compares the average price of oil and the food price index between 2000 and 2011.
It is clear that there were upward trends in the average global prices of both oil and food. furthermore, there was no difference between both indexes over the given period.
In 2000, the average global oil price was close to $25 per barrel, and the food price index stood at 90 points. Over the following four years, both prices remained relatively stable before rising steadily to about 160 and 140 respectively.
The period from 2007 to 2008 showed dramatic increases in both commodity prices, with oil prices reaching a peak of approximately $130 and the food price index rising to 220 points. However, in 2009, the former dropped by roughly $90, and the later was down by 80 points. Finally, in 2011, the average oil price rose once again, to nearly $100 per barrel, while the food price index reached its peak at almost 240 points.

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Average: 7.8 (12 votes)
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IELTS Writing Task I - IELTS Academic

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 93, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Overall
...age global prices of both oil and food. overall, the trends for both commodities were v...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 33.7804878049 89% => 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: 805.0 965.302439024 83% => OK
No of words: 175.0 196.424390244 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.6 4.92477711251 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63713576256 3.73543355544 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18989143334 2.65546596893 82% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 106.607317073 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.547539520022 104% => OK
syllable_count: 239.4 283.868780488 84% => 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
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 3.36585365854 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.1926196616 43.030603864 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.625 112.824112599 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.875 22.9334400587 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.875 5.23603664747 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => 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: 0.294684466273 0.215688989381 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140163884344 0.103423049105 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102425659799 0.0843802449381 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192275712602 0.15604864568 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352173143839 0.0819641961636 43% => 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: 11.2 13.2329268293 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 61.2550243902 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.3012195122 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.4 11.4140731707 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.48 8.06136585366 93% => OK
difficult_words: 31.0 40.7170731707 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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