The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily

Friendship is the most valuable relationship in our life. The friends that we possess have an ability to enhance or degrade our life. Personally, I partially agree with the given statement. I feel this for a several reasons and I will explain them in this essay.

Firstly, if we manage to maintain our friendships over a long period of time, that is an excellent quality. After only three to four years of being friends, we can totally rely on our friends with any decision in life. Long-term friends tend to know us inside out. For example, I have a group of three close friends, whom I know since school. We are now friends for over 8 years. Recently, I discussed with them one work task I was procrastinating as I was having a self-doubt. Knowing how I deal with my work, my friends suggested me to give it a try and if I not succeed in one try, then I can think of assigning that task to someone else. As suggested, I gave that task some of my time, and to my surprise, the solution was right in front of me. I was just too afraid to make a first move. This taught me that, cherishing long-term friendship is like a blessing in disguise.

On the other hand, according to me, we should also possess the ability to make new friends easily. This makes us come out of our comfort zone. New friends provide us with an opportunity to explore new paths in life and make peace with it. To illustrate, while attending a psychology workshop, I got to know a student who was learning finance as his major. A few minutes into talking to him, lead us to an interesting topics of adventure treks that was his hobby. By this time, I had never been to a trek which involves activities like crossing a river, climbing down from a mountain, etc. But, with this new friend, I went on a trek to place few miles away from my city, which I would rather not done. The trek introduced me to a lot of new people and I had a lot of fun there doing all the adventurous activities. I had never explored this side of me, as there was no background of trekking in my family. I was completely happy to meet this new friend. This made me realize that some of the best experiences in our life come unexpectedly, just as we make new friends.

In this way, I think we should never restrict ourselves in life, confining our experiences to limited people. Whenever we get a chance, we should consider making new friends and growing our network, after all, what's life without friends? And why shouldn't we have more of them?

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...to maintain our friendships over a long period of time, that is an excellent quality. After on...
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Suggestion: topic
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Suggestion: what's
...nds and growing our network, after all, whats life without friends? And why shouldnt ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...ll, whats life without friends? And why shouldnt we have more of them?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, so, then, while, after all, for example, i feel, i think, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 82.0 43.0788530466 190% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2035.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 464.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.38577586207 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58847511884 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521551724138 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 631.8 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.0101028376 48.9658058833 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 72.6785714286 100.406767564 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5714285714 20.6045352989 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.78571428571 5.45110844103 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 11.8709677419 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227119982683 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0653490183567 0.076458572812 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552527503965 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13100875339 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040983311602 0.0645574589148 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.5 11.7677419355 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 58.1214874552 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.89 10.9000537634 72% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.002688172 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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