Question:Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.Use specific reasons and e

Friendship is essential for everyone, having a few friends to talk to when you feel down can really help establish a stronger friendship and a way to deal with your stress. I agree that making new friends can be fun, but I still consider longterm friendship with a few friends is more important this is because of three reasons which I will be further elaborating on in the following essay.

Talking from personal experience I believe that it is hard to be friends with everyone. Constantly trying to establish new friendships is very exhausting for me, and it won't leave me the time to stay in touch with my old friends. In my opinion, friendships only become stronger if I am able to go through a lot with my friend. Through a long-lasting friendship, my friend and I will understand each other a lot better compared to someone I just met for a few days.

Personally, I would more likely trust a friend I know for years over a friend I just met. It takes a long time for us to trust someone else if I am unable to maintain a long-term friendship with a few of my friends I would have no one to trust, no one to talk to that I know understands me. At least, in my opinion, I believe that I need to know someone well enough before I tell them any of my secrets. I remember once when I tried to tell a friend my secret when I have not had a chance to get to know them enough, I was really uncomfortable and turns out she sold me out and spreader my secrets as rumors. I was unwise to share my secrets with someone I hardly know. If I was able to know her well enough and know that she is the type of person that would spread my secrets I would not have told her.

Lastly, to add on to my previous point of trust, I would go to my trustworthy friends for decisions. I do not think a friend I've only met for a few days will actually consider the ethics of my choices and actions. I believe that it is less likely that they will actually help me consider the consequences. I remember when I went to a friend I've met for only a week for suggestions, they didn't really seem to care and they seemed to give me a very random suggestion without considering it. It makes me feel really odd and unreliable. I bet if I was her childhood friend she would actually care and give me a suggestion she truly believe is best for my situation.

In conclusion, I believe that long-term friendships are valuable since strong friendship can only be established over a long period of time. This sums up why I disagree with the statement.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, lastly, really, so, still, well, at least, in conclusion, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 88.0 43.0788530466 204% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2052.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 479.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.28392484342 4.8611393121 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67825486995 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65083913211 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436325678497 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 625.5 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6059220255 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.6 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.95 20.6045352989 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.45110844103 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
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: 0.217771801507 0.236089414692 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0794103406483 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0586597949165 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153027027068 0.150856017488 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0626160680495 0.0645574589148 97% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 11.7677419355 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.51 58.1214874552 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.84 10.9000537634 72% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.62 8.01818996416 83% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 86.8835125448 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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