The charts below show reasons for travel and the main issues for the travelling public in the US in 2009.
The first chart compares the figures for different reasons why people go out and the second chart shows the main problems worrying US citizens in 2009.
Overall, it is clear that most US citizens went out for commuting to work and the price of travel was the problem worrying them the most.
Looking at reasons for travel, the figure for people going out for commuting to work was the highest, at 49%, while the proportion of personal reasons accounted for 19%. In addition, the figure for US citizens going out for shopping made up 16%, while the percentages of recreation and visiting friends or relatives were 10% and 6%, respectively.
Turning to the main problems making them concerned when they went out, the cost of travelling became the most popular issue, making up over a third. Following this, the two least concerns were safety and aggressive drivers with 19% and 17% respectively, while the proportion of highway congestion accounted for nearly 15%. In contrast, there was a small portion for access to public transport as well as space for pedestrians, standing almost a tenth.
- In the future there will be a higher proportion of older people than young people in many countries Is it a positive or negative development 78
- It is a natural process for animal species to become extinct e g dinosaurs dodos There is no reason why people should try to prevent this from happening Do you agree or disagree 84
- Topic Some people think that childcare centers provide the best services for children of pre school age Other working parents think that family members such as grandparents will be better carers for their kids Discuss both views and give your own opinion 89
- As major cities in the world are growing today so do their problems What are the problems for young people who are living in the cities as the result of continued growth What are the solutions for these problems 89
- Some people think that young people should be required to do unpaid work helping people in the community Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages 84
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, look, second, so, third, well, while, in addition, in contrast, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 5.60731707317 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 33.7804878049 68% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 3.97073170732 151% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 913.0 965.302439024 95% => OK
No of words: 184.0 196.424390244 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96195652174 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58315737657 2.65546596893 97% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 106.607317073 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597826086957 0.547539520022 109% => 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: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 26.0 22.4926829268 116% => OK
Sentence length SD: 17.2283582076 43.030603864 40% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 130.428571429 112.824112599 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2857142857 22.9334400587 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1428571429 5.23603664747 232% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397997696707 0.215688989381 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.181219389571 0.103423049105 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.094110568243 0.0843802449381 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245181049234 0.15604864568 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662683650054 0.0819641961636 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.2329268293 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 61.2550243902 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.3012195122 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 11.4140731707 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.06136585366 102% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 40.7170731707 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.9970731707 113% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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