In some countries, small town-centre shops are going out of business because people tend to drive to large out-of-town stores. As a result, people without cars have limited access to out-of town stores, and it may result in an increase in the use of cars. Do you think the disadvantages of this change outweigh its advantages?
It is true that in many countries, people now routinely use their cars to shop at large supermarkets or superstores outside the town centre. While this has a number of advantages, I would argue that the disadvantages of this trend outweigh the benefits.
On the one hand, there are benefits to be gained by shopping at out-of-town stores. Firstly, in big cities like London, motorists who shop in city centre stores have to pay a congestion charge to enter the central urban zone. They may also be unable to avoid rush hour traffic jams when city centre traffic grinds to a halt. Secondly, if there is a lot of shopping to carry, then a car is very convenient and, for example, the food items for all the family can be loaded into the car. Of course, such out-of-town megastores provide ample free parking and encourage car use, in contrast to the stores in the centre of town.
On the other hand, I believe that there are important drawbacks which outweigh any benefits. One problem is that convenient shopping is a feature of urban living and nothing is more depressing than a row of boarded-up shops and derelict buildings where the city centre stores used to be. Without these shops, inner city areas become areas of crime and poverty. Another disadvantage is that poorer people do not have cars, and out-of-town stores may be inadequately served by buses. Unless local authorities upgrade and expand public transport provision, the convenience of out-of-townshopping is denied to the poorest members of the community.
In conclusion, despite the advantages of out-of-town superstores, I consider that the benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...its are outweighed by the drawbacks.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, of course, in contrast to, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1384.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 277.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9963898917 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88553587719 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613718411552 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.3024511776 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.461538462 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3076923077 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5384615385 7.06120827912 178% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35327439932 0.244688304435 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11749425956 0.084324248473 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105061097998 0.0667982634062 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196864307691 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.05212951586 0.056905535591 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.