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

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

It is clearly evident that the proportion of global prices of both food and oil increased from 2000 to 2011. Overall, there are some striking similarities of the trends for both food and oil prices, and a strong correlation -93,6%- is suggested.

By 2000, the food price index stood at roughly 90 points and the average oil price made up $25 per barrel. During the first 4 years, both prices remained stable, after which the costs registered a slight increase in three years. In 2007, the food price index rose to 140 points, more than 50 points in 2000 and the average oil price increased by $30 per barrel.

2007 witnessed a dramatic growth in the costs of food and oil, the average oil price reached a peak of $130 per barrel and the food price index grew to 230 points. In clear contrast, the costs collapsed quickly at the beginning of 2009, the food prices fell by 80 points and approximately $90 per barrel with the price of oil. However, increasing in both trends were apparent in 2009, while the average oil price rose to $100 per barrel, the food price index reached its highest point just below 240 points.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, so, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 33.7804878049 86% => 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: 915.0 965.302439024 95% => OK
No of words: 201.0 196.424390244 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55223880597 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76529505866 3.73543355544 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30751396046 2.65546596893 87% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 106.607317073 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532338308458 0.547539520022 97% => OK
syllable_count: 252.9 283.868780488 89% => 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: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => 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: 25.0 22.4926829268 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.0536923426 43.030603864 58% => 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: 25.125 22.9334400587 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.125 5.23603664747 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => 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: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322000599284 0.215688989381 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.181337278978 0.103423049105 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.089317314263 0.0843802449381 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246360854514 0.15604864568 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0247937743496 0.0819641961636 30% => 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: 12.6 13.2329268293 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 71.48 61.2550243902 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.41 11.4140731707 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.39 8.06136585366 92% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 40.7170731707 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.9970731707 109% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => 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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