The table below gives information about rail transport in four countries in 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant
The table gathers data regarding both passenger and cargo transport via train and other rail systems in the year 2007. Information about only four countries – United Kingdom, USA, Japan and Italy – is given.
The first group of data shown in the table deals with passenger transportation. Among the four considered countries, the one in which the highest number of people moved by rail transport was Japan, with 27 million passengers. In Italy and in the United Kingdom respectively 5.5 and 5.9 million people travelled by train in the same year, but the lowest amount of rail transport passen...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 10
No. of Words: 240 200
No. of Characters: 1160 1000
No. of Different Words: 127 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.936 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.833 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.677 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 68 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 53 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.411 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.41 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.624 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4