The given pie charts compare the expenses in 7 different categories in 1966 and 1996 by American Citizens

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The given pie charts compare the expenses in 7 different categories in 1966 and 1996 by American Citizens.

The pie charts demonstrate the percentages of spending on 7 different categories within 3 decades between 1966 and 1996 by American Citizens.

It is evident that while American citizens mainly spent money on Food in 1966, cars accounted for the highest percentage in 1996.

The upward patterns could be seen in the categories of cars, computers, restaurants and petrol. Cars only comprised a quarter of total spending in 1966 but doubled to 45% in 1996. Similarly, the two-fold increase could be witnessed in the percentage of restaurants, reaching to 14% in 1996. It is noticeable that although computers were the least-spent items with 1% of total expenditure, this figure grew ten times 10% in 1996. However, the proportion of petrol spending hardly changed, rising slightly by 1% from 8% n 1966.

The remaining items showed the opposite trends. The percentage of food was up to 44% in 1966 but declined four-times in the following three decades. The most considerable decrease was the expenditure on books with the figure falling to 1% from 6% in 1966. The slight fall could only be seen in spending on furniture, shrinking by 2% from 10%.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, similarly, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 5.0 24.0651302605 21% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 964.0 1615.20841683 60% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 191.0 315.596192385 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04712041885 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 4.20363070211 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86600320963 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 176.041082164 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.602094240838 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 268.2 506.74238477 53% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.7261483853 49.4020404114 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.6363636364 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3636363636 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.09090909091 7.06120827912 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245943160333 0.244688304435 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0910580179021 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128893430004 0.0667982634062 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194794165354 0.151304729494 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.168553532784 0.056905535591 296% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.0946893788 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 50.2224549098 142% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.3001002004 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 78.4519038076 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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