In many countries today, people in cities live alone or in small family units, rather than family groups.
It is true that people in modern world nowadays tend to stay by their own or in nuclear families. From my perspective, this phenomenon has both advantage and drawbacks.
On the one hand, the raise of smaller households is advantageous due to several reasons. Firstly, in individual scale, people who live alone will be more mature, independent and self-reliant compared to those who stay with family members. Because of the self-catering life, they have more opportunities to expose to the outside society and gain various soft-skills throughout real experiences in different situations. For example, students who live in campus have to do household chores by themselves and learn to manage their budget which are all valuable life skills. Secondly, in economic scale, this trend is a perfect adaptation to the shortage of accommodations in mega cities. The migration of people from rural to urban areas burden on the household stocks which has been an unsolvable problem in cities. If they do not want to endure squalid housing condition, therefore, it is obviously necessary to live alone or in small groups.
On the other hand, there are negative aspects of this trend. With the mass population shift to big cities, ties of kinship are broken as the extended family in countryside is broken up. As a result, reunions will take place only occasionally and the family budget can not be shared with other inmates living under the same roof. For instance, grandparents can support with children-carring, cooking and household expenditure which will help young parents save time and money to balance between work and house. Furthermore, people who live alone may experience the feeling of loneliness, worry and isolation. They miss out the daily conservation between family members and lack of emotional support which is essential especially in stressful period.
In conclusion, I think that positive and negative impacts of the increase in the number of small households are equal due to both individual and social reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, as a result, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1702.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22085889571 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91044005212 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601226993865 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.6130394505 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.375 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.375 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.25 7.06120827912 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175259187652 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0507411357769 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0545970158216 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0846404019318 0.151304729494 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528427020574 0.056905535591 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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