The chart shows how frequently people in the USA ate fast food in restaurants between 2003 and 2013.

The bar chart illustrates how often Americans dined at fast food restaurants over a period of a decade, from 2003 to 2013.

Overall, most Americans ate at fast food joints moderately, while only a significant few ate out daily or never at all.

In 2003, a little over 30% of Americans were eating out once a week. This figure slightly rose to about 33% in 2006, before dropping to around 27% 7 years later. In contrast, 30% of Americans were dining out in 2003, before experiencing a decline and then a sharp rise to about 33% a decade later.

On the other hand, only about 15% of Americans ate at fast food joints several times a week in 2003. This increased to 20% a few years later, before dropping back down to roughly the same value as it was before, in 2013. Likewise, about 12% of Americans ate out a few times a year in 2003. This figure rose to and remained at 15% from 2006 to 2013. Those who ate at fast food restaurants every day or never at all remained at just under 5% within the given time period.

Votes
Average: 8.8 (4 votes)
Essays by the user:

Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, likewise, then, while, in contrast, on the other hand

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 : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 33.7804878049 145% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 832.0 965.302439024 86% => OK
No of words: 191.0 196.424390244 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.35602094241 4.92477711251 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34864464851 2.65546596893 88% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 106.607317073 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539267015707 0.547539520022 98% => OK
syllable_count: 258.3 283.868780488 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 1.53170731707 261% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.07073170732 374% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 3.36585365854 267% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.8976832941 43.030603864 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.2 112.824112599 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1 22.9334400587 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 5.23603664747 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.09268292683 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224202387782 0.215688989381 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100279908472 0.103423049105 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0865982583446 0.0843802449381 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166275228989 0.15604864568 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0985755227798 0.0819641961636 120% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 13.2329268293 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 61.2550243902 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.3012195122 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.01 11.4140731707 70% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.81 8.06136585366 84% => OK
difficult_words: 27.0 40.7170731707 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.