Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Computer games have improved a lot over time. Present computer games are very elaborate and mimic real life to very close extent. The prompt states that playing computer games is a waste of time and children should not be allowed to play them. I partially agree with this statement for two reasons.

First, computer games are very addictive and can affect the health of anyone, especially children, if played for a long time. For instance, my nephew has been exposed to computer games from a very young age. As he grew up, he completely ignore outdoor games or any exercises. This deteriorated his health a lot. It decreased his appetite and long exposure to screens affected his eyes. If the children are restricted to reduce the time spend on computer games and used it in any other outdoor activity, it would help their growing body a lot. It would enhance body mind interaction and instill a sense of confidence in them.

Second, computer games tend to be very addictive and makes anyone, especially children uninterested in outside world. They exaggerate everything and brings about a sense of false accomplishment which would eventually make them unable to differentiate truth from lies. For instance, most of the popular games today have a lengthy story-line. They reward the players regularly as they totally get absorbed in it. As the story progresses, difficulty increases and making it more addictive. In this process players tend to get a false satisfaction and forget the activities in their real world. If it continues for a long time, the children might miss the other activities with real people. This generally leads to decreased confidence to face the society in future. Hence it is of great importance for the parents to restrict children from playing computer games and spend some time with their friends outside.

People might argue that computer games is a form of entertainment and also many multiplayer games helps in communicating with a lot of new people. It also brings friends closer. However, there is always a limit on how much time children can actually spend without getting addicted. Computer games, when played in limit, is good form of entertainment. But can easily turn into a addiction. So, children should not be allowed to play them.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 238, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'ignores'.
Suggestion: ignores
...young age. As he grew up, he completely ignore outdoor games or any exercises. This de...
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Line 9, column 753, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...ecreased confidence to face the society in future. Hence it is of great importance for th...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 764, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...nfidence to face the society in future. Hence it is of great importance for the paren...
^^^^^
Line 13, column 377, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...entertainment. But can easily turn into a addiction. So, children should not be a...
^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, second, so, still, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1908.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 380.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02105263158 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69782409502 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518421052632 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.9634100706 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.3846153846 100.406767564 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.6153846154 20.6045352989 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.03846153846 5.45110844103 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305998669781 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885513118289 0.076458572812 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115695961724 0.0737576698707 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225630553235 0.150856017488 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996024453418 0.0645574589148 154% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 11.7677419355 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 10.1575268817 87% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.24 10.9000537634 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => 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: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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