Old friends are an indispensable part of our lives; moreover, the life itself is quite an uninteresting thing without making new acquaintances and friends. However, personally, I am prone to believe that old friends are more important. I hold this opinion since they are the ones we can rely on; making new friends is not an easy thing to do; and we do not often have time for building new friendships.
To begin with, we can count on our old friends. They have proved to be loyal to us and, therefore, we refer to them any time we need their help, assistance or advice. For example, whenever I need to talk to someone and get advice, I prefer to do that with a person whom I know for a long time. This is explained by the fact that most of us are not prone to share our difficulties with people we do not know well and throughout long time. So, the longer we are friends with a person, the more we trust him.
Additionally, our new acquaintances should be tested properly, otherwise we will not be able to be sincere with each other and, therefore, become friends. In this regard, the problem is that not all our peers may become our friends since not all of them will satisfy our criteria for making friendship. For instance, when I was a student, I had a lot of classmates with whom I communicated very well. However, there was only one person with whom we became friends since we had similar interests and values. Thus, acquiring new friends is not a simple thing to do.
Finally, as we grow older we have less time for communicating with new people. Our life is hectic inasmuch as we have a lot of things to do both in our professional and private lives. And the older we become, the less attention we pay to making new friends. For instance, my grandfather has only three friends with whom he shares his thoughts, ideas and interests. Consequently, old friends are really valuable people for all of us.
To sum up briefly, it is impossible for a person to have a lot of friends due to the mentioned above subjective and objective factors which force us to appreciate our old friends most of all. They are trusted people who are nearby throughout all our lives.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
briefly, consequently, finally, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, for instance, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 58.0 43.0788530466 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => 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: 1777.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 396.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.48737373737 4.8611393121 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64691158806 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479797979798 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 551.7 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3562572596 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.85 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.3 5.45110844103 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188009780947 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769217597856 0.076458572812 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0671255880357 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133298882787 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.07595639566 0.0645574589148 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.76 10.9000537634 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.09 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 86.8835125448 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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