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.
The given illustration summarises the percentages of four activities that the elderly in the US did in their leisure time from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that watching TV attracted most of the elderly throughout the period shown. Also notably, hiking was the most popular activity in the 2010s.
An in-depth look at the chart shows that a modest 5 percent of old US citizens surfed the Internet for recreation in the 1980s. The percentage rose gradually to roughly 14 percent in the 2000s, and climbed to 50 percent in the 2010s. A similar trend was seen in the Hiking category, with a sharp growth from 20 percent in the 1980s to 80 percent in the 2010s.
In the 1980s, 60 percent of the elderly in the US watched TV in their free time. The portion experienced a steady of 10 percent, then decreased slightly to roughly 65 percent. Meanwhile, 30 percent and 50 percent fell into the reading and theatre categories respectively. However, the figure for reading fluctuated and reached 60 percent in the 2010s after hitting its lowest point of 20 percent in the 2000s, whereas the figure for theatre dropped substantially to 30 percent in the 1990s and went up steadily to 45 percent in the 2010s.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 120, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...he elderly throughout the period shown. Also notably, hiking was the most popular ac...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, look, so, then, whereas, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 5.60731707317 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 33.7804878049 118% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1024.0 965.302439024 106% => OK
No of words: 218.0 196.424390244 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69724770642 4.92477711251 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 3.73543355544 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60634435362 2.65546596893 98% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 106.607317073 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52752293578 0.547539520022 96% => OK
syllable_count: 277.2 283.868780488 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => 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: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3838927018 43.030603864 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.4 112.824112599 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 22.9334400587 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.23603664747 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
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: 0.0587078120723 0.215688989381 27% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0349149634852 0.103423049105 34% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0525639723652 0.0843802449381 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0518071747095 0.15604864568 33% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0392191485721 0.0819641961636 48% => 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: 11.6 13.2329268293 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.54 61.2550243902 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.3012195122 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 11.4140731707 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.06136585366 103% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 40.7170731707 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 11.2359550562 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 9
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