Few can be as essential as friendship in our daily life. As everyone will be bound to some other people in their life time, one debate about whether maintaining friendship with old friends are more vital than making new friends, remains thought-provoking. To my mind, I disagree with the argument.
First and most foremost, people are bounded together to become friends because of the same value system, when we are trying to saving a friendship, it probably means the common belief between our friends and us disappear. To be specific, we just come to the question from very beginning: how a person would become our friend. Most people know their friends firstly because they are ‘funny’, but if the relationship need to be further developed towards friendship, other factors would be added in. Some is about characteristics, when we are talking about a people and describe him a gentle man. Some is about believes, such as a person who mentioned as a dreamer. To sum up, we are focusing on people’s value systems when choosing friends. It is the similar value system that really attach people together. However, when time passes by, and those shared the same value systems do not believe it anymore, a crack appears between us, and now we are considering ‘maintaining’ a friendship. Although some efforts are put in, it cannot really save the friendship, but just put off the time it expires, for those efforts hardly change the value system of a person. So why not saving time and just let it go?
Secondly, new friends can expand my horizon, it is a good way to learn, to find advantages from others. One of my Russian friend is cited as example, who came to Hong Kong to finish his master degree last year. I met him on the campus, and we found each other fantastic! He knew many things I had never heard, so this new friend really expand my horizon. He does not similar to any of my old friends, hardly to imagine how I would receive so much knowledge without him.
Yet I have to admit that an old friend is sometimes more trustworthy than new a friend, trying your best to maintain a relationship sounds like a terrible idea. On the other hand, a new friend sharing the same value systems would benefit you a lot without a huge effort to keep. So, in conclusion, I do not agree that a person should spend more time on keeping old friends rather than making new friends.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The government should support scientific research that does not have any practical use in the short term 76
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 114, Rule ID: LIFE_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'lifetime'?
Suggestion: lifetime
... be bound to some other people in their life time, one debate about whether maintaining f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, such as, talking about, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => 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: 1990.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 423.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70449172577 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80716908841 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534278959811 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 603.9 618.680645161 98% => 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: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1607850784 48.9658058833 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.15 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189880395712 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0609087190019 0.076458572812 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0815985131362 0.0737576698707 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154160561638 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11907236877 0.0645574589148 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
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: 9.98 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 86.8835125448 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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