Number of marriages and divorces in the USA, 1970-2000

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Number of marriages and divorces in the USA, 1970-2000

The first bar chart presents the number of marriages and divorces in the USA from 1970 to 2000. The second bar chart illustrates the marital status of adult Americans over the span of thirty years shown.

The population of people in marriage remained stable in 1970’s. A drop began in 1980. Since then, the number of marriages continued to go up steadily, from the 2.5 million people in 1980 to 2 million people only in 2000, a 0.5 million decrease. While the divorces fluctuated, a significant increase could be seen from 1970 to 1980, and it peaked in 1980, with 1.4 million people fell into this category. After that, it kept going down and reached to a lowest point in 2000.

From 1970 to 2000, people who are in marriages took up the majority of population. Increases could be seen in the proportion of adult Americans who never married and divorced. In 1970, divorced adults just occupied a mere 2% of adults, which was the lowest of all marital status. While in 2000, the widowed replaced the divorced to become the marital conditions with smallest population.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...over the span of thirty years shown. The population of people in marriage remain...
^^^
Line 3, column 456, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[1]
Message: Use 'the' with the superlative.
Suggestion: the
...that, it kept going down and reached to a lowest point in 2000. From 1970 to 2...
^
Line 5, column 363, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'with the smallest'.
Suggestion: with the smallest
...vorced to become the marital conditions with smallest population.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, then, 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: 2.0 1.00243902439 200% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 33.7804878049 121% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 893.0 965.302439024 93% => OK
No of words: 186.0 196.424390244 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80107526882 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69299088775 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55068291849 2.65546596893 96% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 106.607317073 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548387096774 0.547539520022 100% => OK
syllable_count: 256.5 283.868780488 90% => 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: 8.0 4.33902439024 184% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.07073170732 374% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.4926829268 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3296682577 43.030603864 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.1818181818 112.824112599 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9090909091 22.9334400587 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.72727272727 5.23603664747 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388094177167 0.215688989381 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148570694694 0.103423049105 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.165835884446 0.0843802449381 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270586844183 0.15604864568 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558025616211 0.0819641961636 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 13.2329268293 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 61.2550243902 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.3012195122 70% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.26 11.4140731707 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 40.7170731707 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.4329268293 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.9970731707 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => 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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