Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Many people believe that having an old friend for life is the best thing as they get a lot of great memories. But I contrast with this, I believe making new friends is the way of life and one should make new friends for the following reasons.

First, you got a lot of memories with old friends, but making new memories is the way of life as it brings more joy. For example, I had a childhood dream of doing skydiving, however my old friends were too afraid of jumping from the sky, but while in college I made new friends who were just as energizing as I were. They participated with me in my adventure of sky diving and we made a great new memory, giving me a chance to fulfil my childhood dream.

Second, every person in the world carries their own perspective to view things & that is the greatest thing that we can learn from them. If you are stuck with old friends that means you are stuck with limited perspective. Meeting new people, befriending them opens possibility to view the world differently and overcome your fears. For instance, previously I was annoyed by beggars, but my neighbour whom I just befriended with showed the reality behind them and made me understand their situation thus giving a whole new perspective to the situation.

Third, Friends help you get out of comfort zone. Old friends can be helpful in getting out of certain situations, but new friends opens new possibility of exploring more ways to get out of comfort zone and endeavouring more adventures. For instance, I was too afraid to get inside swimming pool but my new friends at college made me learn to swim and also taught me ways to help someone who is drowning and now not only I know how to swim but I am a lifeguard at a nearby beach, saving a lot of lives.

Thus, I believe making new friends brings more fun to life and give you a chance to explore more about yourself and get out of the comfort zone. Each new friend being something more to life. But that does not mean you forget old friend, as old is gold.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'skydiving'?
Suggestion: skydiving
...participated with me in my adventure of sky diving and we made a great new memory, giving ...
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Line 5, column 138, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...test thing that we can learn from them. If you are stuck with old friends that mea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => 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: 1648.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 371.0 407.700716846 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.44204851752 4.8611393121 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45072847658 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479784366577 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 493.2 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.94265232975 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.1651316792 48.9658058833 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.866666667 100.406767564 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7333333333 20.6045352989 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 5.45110844103 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253022515161 0.236089414692 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104943095571 0.076458572812 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627976012776 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157040729158 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0380762213406 0.0645574589148 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 72.5 58.1214874552 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.77 10.9000537634 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.74 8.01818996416 84% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 86.8835125448 52% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.002688172 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

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