Some say that the government should stop supporting the professional sports activities and the cultural performances, and instead begin supporting schools to encourage children to take up sports and arts. What is your opinion?

It is well agreed that sports and arts provide many benefits to human society, but whether governments should invest in professional or amateur level remain a controversy. While many people believe that government's patronage no longer should invest in professional sports but amateur level, I tend to support the idea that professional sporting activities generate many benefits for society and require sufficient investment as well.

On the one hand, the amateur level is essential due to several benefits that it would offer. The first one is that schools provide the foundation for young talents to grow. Without the assistance at the amateur level, it is impossible for young athletes to progress and proliferate into their professional careers. Additionally, with the enhancement of sports and arts facilities from the provided state fund, more related events would be held to raise the awareness of a healthy lifestyle. Many students would thus benefit from this renovation and engage themselves more in sports activities. This may reduce the obesity rate in young people, which is prevalent in many developed countries.

On the other hand, there are many reasons why governments should perpetuate their fund to support professional sporting events. Firstly, they are a multi-billion-dollar business which generates thousands of jobs ranging from management level to service level. This helps to reduce unemployment rates and enhance people living standard. Secondly, hosting regional and international sporting events is an opportunity to promote the host country's image to the world and attract tourists. For example, having organised the Olympics Games 2012, London itself and England in general, not only welcomed an influx of visitors and but also received international acclaims for its magnificent organisation.

In conclusion, it is certainly true that supporting amateur level of sports and arts in schools plays a pivotal role in cultivating young talents and promoting healthy habits. However, it is necessary to continue the sponsorship for professional sporting events and cultural programs due to their tremendous perks.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, in general, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1825.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 325.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.61538461538 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01138824657 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569230769231 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 562.5 506.74238477 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.611647378 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.666666667 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53333333333 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194515137499 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673975870391 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0732369201995 0.0667982634062 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135873168371 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0586646310677 0.056905535591 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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