The charts below show the average spending for British households in 1971 and 2001

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The charts below show the average spending for British households in 1971 and 2001.

The pie charts compare the percentage of expenditure on 7 different categories by the households in the UK in two separate years, 1971 and 2001.

Overall, of the seven categories shown in the charts cars, restaurants and computers are the only ones that increased. Whereas, the proportion of spending on food, petrol, furniture and books had decreased over the 30 year period.

The percentage of money spent on cars by British households rose significantly by almost 50%, from 22% in 1971 to 43% in 2001. Similarly, the spending on restaurant doubled to 14%, while for computers, the proportion of money spent went up by six-fold with 12% in the last 30 years.

Among the four categories of household spending that decreased, food comprised the most dramatic drop from 44% in 1971 to 14% in 2001. Books had the next highest reduction in percentage and fell by 5% to 1%, however, petrol and furniture declined minimally by 2% and 1% respectively.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'charts'' or 'chart's'?
Suggestion: charts'; chart's
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Line 5, column 103, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, similarly, whereas, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 7.0 14% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 2.0 5.60731707317 36% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 33.7804878049 104% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 795.0 965.302439024 82% => OK
No of words: 160.0 196.424390244 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96875 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.73543355544 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89092734905 2.65546596893 109% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 106.607317073 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.59375 0.547539520022 108% => OK
syllable_count: 222.3 283.868780488 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 8.94146341463 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 14.9802591188 43.030603864 35% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 113.571428571 112.824112599 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8571428571 22.9334400587 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 5.23603664747 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 1.69756097561 118% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.26271902194 0.215688989381 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109930003545 0.103423049105 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795232095427 0.0843802449381 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151169729934 0.15604864568 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531801692251 0.0819641961636 65% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.2329268293 101% => OK
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: 11.84 11.4140731707 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.06136585366 100% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 40.7170731707 84% => More difficult words wanted.
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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