Discuss the effects of watching television

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Discuss the effects of watching television

Nowadays, there are many programs on television have been shown to serve people’s entertainment needs. Not only are the programs abundant in content but they also are in good quality. The fact that the number of programs that bring good effects to people, especially young people, are not much, however, their benefits cannot be denied.

First, watching television can help people to broaden their knowledge. There are a lot of programs which, like discovery, documentary, and news, give people with useful information. Everyday around the world, events always occur that people have to update necessary news. Therefore, people can know more about science, history, animals, and human as well by watching television, and they can apply that knowledge to their life. Besides, watching TV is one of the fastest ways to get information. Instead of waiting for newspapers updated information and then reading them in the next days, people can directly get pieces of information they want by watching live programs on TV.

Second, television can affect children’s schoolwork in other ways. Recently, more and more channels have programs for students. It is very important to give students useful tips resolving problems in their school life about pressure, love, and friend. Furthermore, educational programs also give students good lessons, perhaps, chiefly, at Math and English, so students can approach knowledge without paying any fee.

Final, watching television is a good way to people get rest. Television is a standard entertaining equipment in most homes. In spite of the fact that personal computer is more popular, television cannot be replaced. Most of families in Vietnam still have a habit that, in the dinner or weekend, all family members will watch television and share life problem together. In addition, the more developing of economy, the more people ask for entertaining. In the result, more and more kind of programs which, such as sitcom, game-show or live-show, give people have more choices when they want to unwind.

Conclusion, if people choose good programs, they can get good influences in their knowledge, studying and mind. Therefore, people have to know what programs are suitable or unsuitable for children and effective or ineffective on them, and people should not spend lots of time to watch television unless it can harm them.

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Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 76, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[5]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'standard entertaining equipment'.
Suggestion: standard entertaining equipment
...d way to people get rest. Television is a standard entertaining equipment in most homes. In spite of the fact tha...
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Line 13, column 217, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'Most of', you should use 'the' ('Most of the families') or simply say ''Most families''.
Suggestion: Most of the families; Most families
...popular, television cannot be replaced. Most of families in Vietnam still have a habit that, in ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, still, then, therefore, well, in addition, kind of, such as, in spite of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2016.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 376.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36170212766 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76057039846 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553191489362 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.416560578 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9047619048 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52380952381 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184034939337 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663688476578 0.084324248473 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0711055469194 0.0667982634062 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108107108865 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444656904515 0.056905535591 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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