Most people have forgotten the meaning behind traditional or religious festivals; during festival periods, people nowadays only want to enjoy themselves.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Some people opine that we no longer remember the original meaning of festivals, and that these days, most of us treat them as opportunities to have fun. In my opinion, I disagree with the given statement that individuals have forgotten what these festivals mean as they are learnt both at school and at home.
To begin with, a school is a place where beneficial knowledge is imparted to people for their personal and community benefits. In Nigerian schools, children learn in detail as a course religious knowledge and they are taught the reasons for celebrating different religious festivals like Eid, Christmas and Easter. For example, last year during the Eid festival, children from my community performed a play telling the story of Prophet Abraham and his son. Similar behaviour can be seen during non-religious festivals such as the thanksgiving. This shows that festivals with religious content has not be forgotten.
In the same way, family as the smallest unit in the community has helped in safeguarding the underlying meaning of such festivals. They also play a vital role in passing knowledge of religious festivals and historical background’s importance and values on to the next generation. For instance, the Igbo from the Eastern part of Nigeria are known for their New Yam Festivals which they have been celebrating for the past century. This is achievable as a result of the stories learnt at an early age as a way of protecting their heritage.
In conclusion, in spite of the varying views, I believe that individuals are still aware of the reasons for celebrating festivals even though they mainly want to enjoy themselves during these celebrations.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 602, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...estivals with religious content has not be forgotten. In the same way, family ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, still, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in my opinion, in spite of, to begin with, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1407.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13503649635 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90275415285 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576642335766 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 432.0 506.74238477 85% => 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: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.657101025 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.25 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.9166666667 7.06120827912 169% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.278058515602 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100329390924 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687071184202 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162935681924 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0548824675266 0.056905535591 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => 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: 12.83 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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