In areas where there are many restaurants some people prefer to buy their meals in restaurants very frequently rather than cooking and eating meals at home Other people prefer to cook most of their meals at home and only rarely eat in a restaurant Which o | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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In areas where there are
many restaurants, some people prefer to buy their meals in restaurants very frequently, rather than
cooking and eating meals at home. Other people prefer to cook most of their meals at home and
only rarely eat in a restaurant. Which one would you choose and why?

There are certainly both pros and cons of eating outside. To me, however, its advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Cooking is a time consuming process and the result may not be as good as restaurant’s food; plus in contrast with most of the people’s believes, cooking at home could be more costly than buying prepared meals.
T begin with, I am a university student and I don’t have much time to cook. Cooking at home is not only the process of mixing together the ingredients and let them cook; it consists ingredients shopping, washing and sanitizing them, chopping and finally using them in a meal. Plus if we don’t use the ingredients for a while, they might get corrupted. As a result, cooking at home can not be fast; it can take a whole day. Despite the fact that it might be enjoyable and gratifying to some people , to me it is just a mundane chore that take time and energy and leaves no time left to study.
Furthermore, I don’t know how to cook. I have been living on my own for two years, yet I don’t know how to cook except for some very simple foods. At the first year of my university and also away from my family, I had a roommate and we divided the house chores and expenses. I was in charge with weekend foods. At first I tried to cook myself because that time I only knew some fancy restaurants in town which were really expensive, but the result was really disappointing; the meals became whether spicy or blend. Despite of my several tries, no improvement was achieved. Finally, after causing a little fire in the kitchen, I realized that I have absolutely no flair for cooking and it is for the best of ourselves to give up home made food.
In summary, according to my experiences and efforts I invested on cooking, I discerned that cooking is a waste of energy, time and money for me; thus I ease myself by buying foods.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 496, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... enjoyable and gratifying to some people , to me it is just a mundane chore that t...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, thus, while, except for, in contrast, in summary, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1524.0 1977.66487455 77% => OK
No of words: 339.0 407.700716846 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.49557522124 4.8611393121 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62590238238 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563421828909 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 618.680645161 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.0272117703 48.9658058833 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.25 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1875 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.1875 5.45110844103 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257989064023 0.236089414692 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0699266145896 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.07005310551 0.0737576698707 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148648281988 0.150856017488 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647490002806 0.0645574589148 100% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.82 10.9000537634 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 86.8835125448 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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