Free time activities of the elderly in The United States from 1980 to the present

A glance at the line graph provided illustrates the percentage of old generations doing five different activities in their leisure time in the United States from 1980 to present. In general, it is clearly apparent that hiking, reading, and surfing the internet had a downward trend while watching TV and theatre showed the opposite.

Looking in more detail, in 1980s, watching TV was the most popular leisure activity among elderly at 60% followed by theatre at 50% while surfing the internet was the least favorited at 5%. In addition hiking and reading only did by 20% and 30% of the elderly. In the next two decades, the old generation who liked watching TV and surfing the internet increased gradually by 10% while those who liked hiking rose significantly to 60%. On the other hand, the figures of elderly who spent their free time for reading and theatre dropped by 10% although both experienced a fluctuation in 1990s.

In the 2010s until present, surprisingly, the number of respondents who love hiking had being increase surpassing the other activities at 80%. Additionally, reading and surfing internet had also gaining popularity which significantly reached 60% and 50% respectively. Furthermore, theatre also showed a marginal increase but still below the beginning point at 45%. Oppositely, watching TV reported to decline slightly by 5%. However it still be the second higest activities done in free time.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 25, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 1980s'.
Suggestion: in the 1980s
...he opposite. Looking in more detail, in 1980s, watching TV was the most popular leisu...
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Line 3, column 194, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: addition,
...ernet was the least favorited at 5%. In addition hiking and reading only did by 20% and ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 583, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 1990s'.
Suggestion: in the 1990s
...although both experienced a fluctuation in 1990s. In the 2010s until present, surpris...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 426, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... TV reported to decline slightly by 5%. However it still be the second higest activitie...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 443, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...ecline slightly by 5%. However it still be the second higest activities done in fr...
^^
Line 5, column 494, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nd higest activities done in free time.
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, look, second, so, still, while, in addition, in general, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 3.15609756098 190% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 33.7804878049 101% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1195.0 965.302439024 124% => OK
No of words: 231.0 196.424390244 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17316017316 4.92477711251 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 3.73543355544 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81428568099 2.65546596893 106% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 106.607317073 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575757575758 0.547539520022 105% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 283.868780488 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => 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: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4641807969 43.030603864 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.636363636 112.824112599 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 22.9334400587 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0909090909 5.23603664747 193% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 1.69756097561 353% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 3.70975609756 243% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218096915047 0.215688989381 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0768452048452 0.103423049105 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110511694963 0.0843802449381 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155488409141 0.15604864568 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0744604524575 0.0819641961636 91% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 61.2550243902 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 11.4140731707 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.06136585366 106% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 40.7170731707 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.4329268293 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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