TPO-03 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Nobody can live without friends. Some people would argue that keeping your old friends is far important than acquiring new friends, while others hold the opposite view. Generally speaking, I believe that making new friends is better. I will explain the reasons for my stance in the following lines.

To begin with, it essential to have friends who share the values and principles of yours. Throughout the course of life, we made a lot of friends, where we were kids, because we met them at school or they were our neighbors. After long time, you can find that you do not have the same values any longer. Human change with time and the that is absolutely normal. Therefore, if you find that you do not believe, like and hate the same things, it is wise to look for other friends who have the same interests. For instance, during the Egyptian revolution in 2011, I found that some of my old friends are supporting the old corrupted regime, while I was big supporter for the change and getting rid of the old political system. I wasn't able to make them change my their minds, and in the same time, I found it preposterous to keep friendship with those who support corruption and unjust. To say it in other words, what matters is the common values, not the length of the friendship.

Furthermore, when you expand your circle of friends, it is likely to have broad perspective and knowledge about life. One should always strive to widen his look to the world by getting close to those people who are more experienced and knowledgeable. No only would it enlarge your social area, but also it will increase the opportunity of getting better in work. If you are eager to keep professional people as friends, you have better chances to progress in your career. For instance, if you are a new graduate, they could recommend you for a certain job, or even show you the way to the reputable dream job. They can help in myriad ways that facilitate your mission.

To sum up, I believe that building a large circle of new friends is crucial than keeping only old friends. This is because we should always seek to find people who hold the same values and principles. In addition, new friends can help you to widen view for the world.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 727, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...ting rid of the old political system. I wasnt able to make them change my their minds...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, so, therefore, while, for instance, in addition, in other words, to begin with, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1829.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 398.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59547738693 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43498450024 2.67179642975 91% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 212.727598566 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510050251256 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 618.680645161 89% => 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
Interrogative: 3.0 0.994623655914 302% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6397464056 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0952380952 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9523809524 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85714285714 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275754460665 0.236089414692 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0810004967804 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567125233896 0.0737576698707 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182284032214 0.150856017488 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468218314692 0.0645574589148 73% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.4 10.9000537634 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.11 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 86.8835125448 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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