The graph below fives information from a 2008 report about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projections until 2030.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph illustrates the amount of fuel energy use by the USA over a fifty-year timescale, with a forecast for the future. Overall there is an upward trend throughout the use of all types of fuel.
Although there are plenty of energy sources, people in the USA have been using petrol and oil as the most important fuel for their daily life since 1980. We can see there is a similar fluctuate pattern between petrol, oil, and coal between 1980 and 2005, however, there was a considerable increase from 2006 and it is predicted to continue to increase in the future. While the usage of petrol and oil will reach a peak of 47.5 quadrillion units in 2030 compared to 35 quadrillion in 1980, the consumption of coal in the US will only reach 27.5 quadrillion from 20 quadrillion in 1980. Besides coal, petrol, and oil, natural gas is also one of the most popular fuel in the USA. The usage of natural gas decreased slightly between 1980 and 1995, however, it recovered in 1996 and fluctuated till 2015. Natural gas is predicted to remain stable in the future.
In contrast, Nuclear, solar, wind or hydropower is not quite popular among USA citizens and there is only about 4.75 quadrillion units has been used in 1980. The use of these energy sources fluctuated around 5 quadrillion between 1980 and 2009 and remained stable from 2015. However, people believe that there will be a slight increase in the consumption of nuclear, solar and wind energy in 2025.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, however, if, so, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 7.0 171% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 1.00243902439 399% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 6.8 191% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 33.7804878049 133% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1207.0 965.302439024 125% => OK
No of words: 257.0 196.424390244 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69649805447 4.92477711251 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 3.73543355544 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50799868055 2.65546596893 94% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 106.607317073 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513618677043 0.547539520022 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 361.8 283.868780488 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7094607879 43.030603864 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.727272727 112.824112599 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3636363636 22.9334400587 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.54545454545 5.23603664747 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 3.70975609756 243% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => 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: 0.127659641103 0.215688989381 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050099407728 0.103423049105 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0331603398589 0.0843802449381 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0896036336954 0.15604864568 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0134123053845 0.0819641961636 16% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.2329268293 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 11.4140731707 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 40.7170731707 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.4329268293 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.