Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A person's childhood years (the time from birth to twelve years of age) are the most important years of a person's life. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

I agree that a person‘s childhood years, from birth until twelve years of age, are the most important. All the information I‘ve read about that time of life states that these are the years that form us. These years determine what kind of a person the child will become. During these years we learn about relationships, begin our formal education and develop our moral sense of right and wrong.

The early years are the time when we learn about relationships. First we learn about our parents and siblings, then about rest of the world. We learn how to respond to others based the treatment we‘re given. If we‘re loved, then we know how to love others. If we‘re treated harshly, we may grow up to treat others harshly. We also form our ideas about our own self worth from the way others treat us during these years. They can convince us we‘re worthless, or they can teach us we deserve love and respect.

There are the years when we begin our formal education. We acquire the basic skills - reading, writing, working with numbers - that we‘ll use throughout our lives. We need a good foundation in these subjects. Otherwise, anything we try to do later will be undermined by our lack of skills. Perhaps the most important thing we can learn during these years is how to analyze information and use it. These are skills that will always be useful.

Most important, from my point of view, these are the years when we develop our moral sense of what‘s right and wrong. Others teach us about good and bad, but later in our early years we begin to decide for ourselves. It‘s also during this time that we begin to develop the self-discipline to live according to our morals.

I believe a person grows and changes for the better throughout the many stages of life. However, the foundation is laid in those first few years of life.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'a' after a classification term. Use simply 'kind of'.
Suggestion: kind of
...at form us. These years determine what kind of a person the child will become. During th...
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Line 10, column 44, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to love'
Suggestion: to love
...thless, or they can teach us we deserve love and respect. There are the years whe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, then, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1584.0 1977.66487455 80% => OK
No of words: 327.0 407.700716846 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84403669725 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50537676164 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 212.727598566 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48623853211 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.9 618.680645161 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 24.5500416589 48.9658058833 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 72.0 100.406767564 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8636363636 20.6045352989 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.40909090909 5.45110844103 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 18.0 4.53405017921 397% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227907112393 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934584966422 0.076458572812 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0988244236391 0.0737576698707 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100579286904 0.150856017488 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0993990004933 0.0645574589148 154% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.8 11.7677419355 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 58.1214874552 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 10.1575268817 63% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.2 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 86.8835125448 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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