Do you agree or disagree with the following statement 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 Use specific reasons and ex | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
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.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Everybody needs good friends to confide in and to share the highs and lows of life with. While having the ability to easily make friends in any situation is a highly valuable skill that helps one avoid loneliness, the quality of these friendships and the degree to which one feels confident in his or her friends is an even more important parameter in determining the value those friendship relations carry. That is why I agree with the sentence that to be happy, the ability to keep friendships for a long period of time, even with a small number of people, is more important than having the ability to make many new friends easily. Such longtime friendships carry deep and real meanings and they also equal to a great number of shared memories. In the following paragraphs, these ideas will be explained more in depth.

It is hard to trust someone after a short time with secrets or real thoughts one has. This is why it takes time to feel comfortable to share such lines of thought with people we know. The keyword here is time; one has to spend time with his or her friends to make it reach this level of comfort. Having a lot of friends divides time spent with friends among them and makes it harder to forge stronger bonds with them all. One gets to forge real, deep connections with few good friends that one has had over a long period of time and this bond only strengthens with the passing of time. Therefore, old friends are on a totally different level than newer ones when it comes to trust and feeling of comfort. Everybody agrees that they find it easier to talk with people they are used to talk for a long time than people they have acquaintanced newly.

Memories are what remains of the time we have spent our lives on and these memories usually get to be more saturated when they are shared with other people. It was explained in the previous paragraph that how old friends have stronger bonds and spend more time together. This means that old friendships are guaranteed to include many more memories than newly-formed friendships. The number of memories, good and bad, is important because humans always feel sentimental and nostalgic when they think of their past life and what better thing to remember when one is thinking of the past than their best friends and their shared acts? For example, I have kept two of my friends that I found in middle school close and we have gone to a number of camping and road trips. There are times that we cannot meet each other for even a few months but in the end, whenever we are together, we are guaranteed to have a good time and make happy memories.

In summary, I believe it is better to maintain friendships with a handful of people over a long period of time rather than going on and making new, short lived friendships. Old friends are always easier to talk to and feel more real in terms of friendship standards and they are also full of sweet memories that can always be cherished on as time goes on.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 508, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... ability to keep friendships for a long period of time, even with a small number of people, is...
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Line 1, column 534, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...ps for a long period of time, even with a small number of people, is more important than having t...
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Line 3, column 515, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...od friends that one has had over a long period of time and this bond only strengthens with the...
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Line 3, column 777, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[5]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'used to talking'.
Suggestion: used to talking
... it easier to talk with people they are used to talk for a long time than people they have a...
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Line 7, column 97, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ps with a handful of people over a long period of time rather than going on and making new, sh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, then, therefore, while, as to, for example, in summary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 13.8261648746 174% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 52.1666666667 161% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2441.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 539.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.52875695733 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3532024623 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.43599257885 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 748.8 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.711054253 48.9658058833 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.05 100.406767564 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.95 20.6045352989 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65 5.45110844103 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388294347914 0.236089414692 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127147211992 0.076458572812 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105448343959 0.0737576698707 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255488228394 0.150856017488 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786189755839 0.0645574589148 122% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 11.7677419355 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 58.1214874552 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.29 10.9000537634 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.002688172 190% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 10.247311828 185% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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