the charts below show the percentage of US music album sales by genre in 2008 2009 and 2010

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the charts below show the percentage of US music album sales by genre in 2008,2009, and 2010.

The provided pie chart compares and contrasts data on the popularity of five separate musical genres according to the sales of albums in the US in 3 years, 2008,2009, and 2010.
Overall, it is clear to see that Rock was the most common choice in the US among the five given types. Additionally, an upward trend was seen in Rock and Country albums on sale rate whereas there was a slight lull in that of Alternative and R&B albums. By contrast, the proportion of Jazz albums being sold remained unchanged over the period shown.
Looking at the charts in detail, in 2008 Rock was the dominant genre, accounting for approximately 39% of all sales, and the figure remained relatively constant in the subsequent year then reached the pinnacle of 40% in 2010. Moreover, the sale of Country albums in 2008 represented around 13%, a third of the Rock figure in the same year, which slightly accelerated to 16% in 2009 then jumped further to around 18% in 2010.
On the other hand, roughly 23% of US albums being sold in 2008 was in the Alternative genre, a year later that of Alternative shrank abruptly, making up only 20%, followed by a period of stability. The data showed that 22% of the US music album consumption fell into the R&B category by 2008, remaining almost constant in 2009 then the figure went down minimally and hit a low of 19% in 2010. Over the 3 years, there was no change in the Jazz album sales rate, consistently staying at nearly 3% of total sales, also became the least common genre compared to the others.

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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, look, moreover, so, then, third, whereas, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 7.0 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.15609756098 158% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 5.60731707317 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 33.7804878049 157% => 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: 1256.0 965.302439024 130% => OK
No of words: 273.0 196.424390244 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.60073260073 4.92477711251 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 3.73543355544 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51067839792 2.65546596893 95% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 106.607317073 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.547539520022 98% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 283.868780488 131% => 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: 7.0 4.33902439024 161% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.4926829268 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 41.9031805858 43.030603864 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.555555556 112.824112599 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3333333333 22.9334400587 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.22222222222 5.23603664747 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => 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: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.357133048126 0.215688989381 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147065259175 0.103423049105 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121031828461 0.0843802449381 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245550376272 0.15604864568 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128283859285 0.0819641961636 157% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.2329268293 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.95 61.2550243902 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 10.3012195122 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 11.4140731707 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.06136585366 103% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 40.7170731707 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.9970731707 127% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => 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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