Sample TOEFL essay: Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

There are many convinienve for people living in the big city, but I'd like to live in the small town. I can enjoy the advantages if I live in the small city. Because compared with the convinience between the major ones and small ones, I need the small palces to live, I will address my views there in after.

To begin with, traffic problems in big city is the first obstacle. When I was in Shanghai where I spent 4 years of college life, I found the city is so huge that I would go to anywhere by subway. Meanwhile, It would cost me at least one hour in the train. The car was also full of people. While now I am working in my home town, a small city, I can drive to my company within half hour even if there is a traffic jam on the road. Also, sometimes I can take the new subway in my town. There are fewer people in the car.What's more, because of the scale of my hometown is smaller compared with major city like Shanghai, both of the public buses and private cars are easy to take. I really Appriciate the mood when I was drving in my hometown because the sky is blue and more important the cars on the roads are much fewer than there are in Shanghai.

In addition, the nature environment of small city is better than the big city. As the big city is the production of highly developed civilization and technology, there are often environmental problems broght by the prosperity. Or in other words, the pollution of the big city is another reason that I do not like to live there. In my hometown, as the moutains and rivers are well protected by government, the beatiful natural environment is the priceless treasure for the residents in this city. Every year there are over a hundred thousand travellers visit my hometown, some of them may just want to drink the spring from the moutain outside the town which they can not enjoy in the big city. Moreover, the air is nice and clean. I am proud of that in the mobile app-Air quality of China, my hometown is always ranking in the first five cities which have the best air quality.

Finally, the living pressure is smaller if people live in the small city, compared with the big one.It is true that there are more opportunities in big city. I was applying for jobs in Shanghai when I graduated form my college, with more money I can earn, I was on much more pressure for a living. At first there was not much money if I paid for the rent of the room I lived in.Besides, the place I lived was far from my company in Shanghai. While as I returned to my hometown, I got a job easily and the company was closer to my home as I metioned I could go to my office within hal hour. WIth less salaries, my living pressure was much less than in Shanghai.

In all, I believe there are lots of people would like to choose the big city to live for many reasons. But I would like to make a more meaningful life that I can take care of my parents as they are getting old. Also, the convinience of the small city benefits me a lot as I discussed.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, if, may, moreover, really, so, well, while, at least, in addition, in other words, it is true, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 15.1003584229 219% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 52.1666666667 157% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2422.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 572.0 407.700716846 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.23426573427 4.8611393121 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36438364899 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 212.727598566 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.428321678322 0.524837075471 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 795.6 618.680645161 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.3337014181 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.1538461538 100.406767564 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53846153846 5.45110844103 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202178132043 0.236089414692 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0728592095304 0.076458572812 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0844966339961 0.0737576698707 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144616621492 0.150856017488 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.077928540868 0.0645574589148 121% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 11.7677419355 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 58.1214874552 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.25 10.9000537634 67% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.05 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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