The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant Write at least 150 words

the line graph gives information about the percentage of how often the elderly people in the US enjoy free time activities and how this rate changed over 30 years from 1980 and 2010.
What stands out from the graph is that there were 2 opposite trends for these 5 figures. While the proportion of square time activities such as hiking, reading, and surfing the internet witnessed a progress, elderly people who participate in watching tv and theater reduced slightly. It’s noticeable that the data for hiking was the highest percentage in the last year of the chart.
Starting at quite with watching tv, which was the most popular in the first 20 years, but then it suddenly decreased in the last year, by about 60%. In addition, after experencing a sharp decline from 1980 to 1990, theatre activity started to climb up considerably about nearly 50% at the last decade.
Turning to these 3 others, the figure for surfing the internet was only 5%, which was the least interest in the first year, but then it progressed gradually from 5% to nearly 20% between 1980 and 2000. in the last 10 years, it continued to go up significantly to about 50%. whereas, starting at 30% with reading, which was higher than the figure for hiking, at 10%. both of 2 data improved steadily and reached at 40% together in 1990. from 1990 to 2010, old people who enjoy hiking continued improve significantly at 80%, which was the highest point of the chart. About reading, after experencing a considerable reduce, it continued to progress sharply to about 50%

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, then, whereas, while, in addition, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 3.15609756098 253% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 11.0 5.60731707317 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 33.7804878049 154% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 965.302439024 133% => OK
No of words: 267.0 196.424390244 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79400749064 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 3.73543355544 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54338830741 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 106.607317073 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546816479401 0.547539520022 100% => OK
syllable_count: 362.7 283.868780488 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.482926829268 621% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 3.36585365854 238% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 8.94146341463 134% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4412777354 43.030603864 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.666666667 112.824112599 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.25 22.9334400587 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 5.23603664747 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 1.69756097561 295% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.09268292683 122% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128992414588 0.215688989381 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485766472149 0.103423049105 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0563246927381 0.0843802449381 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0984045978442 0.15604864568 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701000640669 0.0819641961636 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.2329268293 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 61.2550243902 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 11.4140731707 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 40.7170731707 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => 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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