TPO-02 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

In today's world, maintaining a healthy relationship is extremely difficult. There are many aspects of our behavior we need to take into consideration. There is no doubt in my mind that telling the truth is the best way for the strong foundation of a relationship. However, is it better to always tell the truth? Some people think always telling truth is the desirable quality for a long-lasting relationship. On the other hand, I believe telling the truth always also has some downside and sometimes it is better not to tell the truth. I feel this way for few reasons, which I will explain in the following essay.

To begin with, telling small lies to people who we care about encourages them. Human beings are competitive in whatever task they do and they want to be the best. If they know that they achieve impressive results in whatever tasks they are doing, people get motivated and give their hundred percent. My husband is a compelling example of what I mean. Last year my husband signed up for the marathon in my city. I knew that he would struggle even to finish the race, but I wanted him to feel confident in his abilities. Accordingly, when he asked me what I think, I lied and told him he had has the chance of finishing in the top ten. This small lie kept him motivate before and during the race, though he did not win the race, he dedicated himself to the training for the marathon.

Furthermore, telling truth is certainly the best way to build a healthy relation, but sometimes unpleasant truth leads to high level of anxiety. For instance, last week my colleague asked what do I think about her new hairstyle. I was honest and told her, I thought it looks terrible. Even though she did not show any anger on my remarks, she felt bad about my comment. My truth led to high level of anxiety in me and my productivity reduced to half for that day. I spent the whole day thinking I jeopardized our relationship and she might not be friendly with me ever again. Had I simply told her her hair looked great, I would have avoided all those feelings.

Moreover, there is no question in my mind telling truth makes you a better person in front of others and also many people thinks that it is a very important trait in a person, but we cannot deny the fact that there are many people who do not like the truth when it is not in favor of the person about whom who are talking and this leads to downfall in the career. My own experience when I was looking for a job in a corporate firm is a great example of what I mean. Two years back when I started looking for a job, my former professor advised me to be truthful in my interview and I followed his advice. As a result, I was very upfront and told whatever I felt about the company and goals of joining the company, but this was not acceptable to the Interviewee. Unfortunately, I did not get the job because of my honesty. Following year, I prepared for the interview and twisted the truth little bit to sound good in front of my interview and guess what I was immediately hired.

All in all, I strongly always telling the truth is not always acceptable. When we tell lies sometimes we encourage people to d good, also it saves the relationship as unpleasant truth is not always acceptable to many people.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 442, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to even'
Suggestion: to even
... my city. I knew that he would struggle even to finish the race, but I wanted him to...
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Line 5, column 595, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: her
...y with me ever again. Had I simply told her her hair looked great, I would have avoided...
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Line 7, column 889, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...for the interview and twisted the truth little bit to sound good in front of my interview ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, so, for instance, i feel, i mean, i think, no doubt, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand, to tell the truth

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 94.0 43.0788530466 218% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2677.0 1977.66487455 135% => OK
No of words: 602.0 407.700716846 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.44684385382 4.8611393121 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95335121839 4.48103885553 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58745606029 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455149501661 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 831.6 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6003584229 146% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4520959873 48.9658058833 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.2333333333 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0666666667 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 11.8709677419 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => 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: 0.149717849273 0.236089414692 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0457609514006 0.076458572812 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460845179423 0.0737576698707 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102293078299 0.150856017488 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514849165965 0.0645574589148 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.53 10.9000537634 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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