TPO-13: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
With the development of the society, there has been a dramatic change in our family structure. People tend to live a smaller size of family than they did in the past, which brings up a question: Is the extended family less important now than it was in the past? As far as I am concerned, my answer to this question is yes.
First of all, nowadays people do not stay close to their extended families as they did in the past. With the transportation system becoming more and more convenient, many people tend to leave their hometown to pursue better opportunity for their jobs. As a result, many people live very far away from their extended family and have less chance spending time with them. With time passing by, this type of long distance relationship just does not work. Therefore, it is a normal trend that the extended family becomes less important in our lives.
Moreover, many people do not have much time and energy to maintain the relationship with the extended families as they did in the past. Nowadays people need to work much longer on daily base than they did in the past, in order to keep up with the fast pace of the society. Even though many people treasure their relationship with the extended family very much, they just cannot squeeze enough time out of the busy life to maintain the relationship. Consequently, even though people do not want to admit, the extended family become less important than before because they have some many things going on in their lives.
Last but not least, the concept of extend family is becoming vague as many children do not have siblings any more. In my country China, a lot of families only have one child because of the policy from government in the past two decades. It is also very common in some western European countries that couple do not want to have kids or more than one kids because of the pressure from the society. There is no doubt that the extended family is less important to those people are living in a more independent and smaller family, which is different from the type of big family in the past.
In conclusion, even though the extended family is still important to us to some extent, it is just less important than it was before because of distance, limited time for the relationship and the smaller size of family we have nowadays.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, moreover, so, still, therefore, in conclusion, no doubt, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1914.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 413.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.63438256659 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41757339183 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 212.727598566 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.428571428571 0.524837075471 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 611.1 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.272373056 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.588235294 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2941176471 20.6045352989 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94117647059 5.45110844103 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232571592062 0.236089414692 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969016008224 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589722496505 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163641779739 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370014960612 0.0645574589148 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.87 10.9000537634 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.85 8.01818996416 85% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 86.8835125448 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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