The pie charts above illustrate the percentage of British students at one of England universities who knew other languages other than English, in the years 2000 and 2010.
Overall, the majority of British students knew at least one foreign language. Over the period given, the number of students who were able to speak two other languages, another language or only English increased, whereas French and Spanish had opposite trends. The proportion of German-speaking students remained the same.
In England, 30% of students communicated only in English, 2000. The number grew to 35 by 2010. Similarly, the percentage of students who spoke two other languages and another language saw an increase by 5 % each.
In contrast, French and Spanish became less popular. The proportion of these categories decreased from 15% and 20% to 10% and 10%, respectively. Of British students 10% could speak German, in 2000, and this number saw no change by 2010.
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- In recent years, more and more people are choosing to read e-books rather than paper books. Do the advantages outweigh disadvantages? 78
- Many young children have unsupervised access to the internet and are using the internet to socialise with others.What problems do children face when going online without parental supervision?How can these problems be solved? 67
- The charts below show the percentage of water used for different purposes in six areas of the world. 67
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nd this number saw no change by 2010.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
similarly, whereas, at least, in contrast
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: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 2.0 5.60731707317 36% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 33.7804878049 77% => 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: 805.0 965.302439024 83% => OK
No of words: 153.0 196.424390244 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2614379085 4.92477711251 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51700396316 3.73543355544 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7968626256 2.65546596893 105% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 106.607317073 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581699346405 0.547539520022 106% => OK
syllable_count: 226.8 283.868780488 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More 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: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.4926829268 67% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.9958508807 43.030603864 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.5 112.824112599 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3 22.9334400587 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.23603664747 78% => 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: 0.386203711239 0.215688989381 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141222427484 0.103423049105 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10376299136 0.0843802449381 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24755566922 0.15604864568 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102521619376 0.0819641961636 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.2329268293 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.3012195122 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 11.4140731707 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.06136585366 97% => OK
difficult_words: 33.0 40.7170731707 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.4329268293 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.9970731707 73% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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