It is often said that retirement is the happiest time of a person’s life. How far do you agree
with this view?
In many countries, the population is ageing consistently, and this presents the older people themselves
with challenges as well as opportunities. It seems to me that retirement is not in fact the most contented period
of life, and I will explain why in this essay.
Firstly, retired people have to contend with the major issue of health. No matter how optimistic a
person is, and how conscientiously they try to keep fit, their health will inevitably decline as they grow older.
This affects their mobility, their ability to interact with people, and their physical comfort when compared to
the earlier stages of their life. A second negative factor is the whole question of finance. By this we mean that
even people who have saved or invested carefully during their working lives will find their income in
retirement reduced considerably, for example by relying on savings. This results in their leisure options being
more restricted than in their younger years, even though they have more time to fill. This leads us on to the
final, and perhaps most significant drawback to retirement, which is isolation. This happens when declining
health and limited resources make people increasingly cut-off, even if they have surviving family members who
seek to care for them. However much the family (or neighbours and social services) may offer support, this
lack of contact will lead progressively to a less contented frame of mind.
It is true that there are some positives to retirement, most notably the time to pursue personal interests
and the presence of grandchildren in many cases. Despite this, it seems that for many older people, these
pleasures are outweighed by issues which can cause stress and depression.
To conclude, the problems of health, financial concerns and isolation combine together to make
retirement a challenging and potentially difficult time for many, especially when compared to the prime period
of life. This is not to say that all retired people suffer in this way, but it appears to be the case very frequently.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...esults in their leisure options being more restricted than in their younger years,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, so, well, for example, in fact, as well as, in many cases, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 24.0651302605 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1768.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 336.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2619047619 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73238924089 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58630952381 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 0.809619238477 865% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2986627845 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.866666667 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.73333333333 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.38176352705 456% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.01903807615 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.165560020794 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0577491298587 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0327710684094 0.0667982634062 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0517973522909 0.151304729494 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0414912615412 0.056905535591 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 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.