TPO-06 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

There has been much discussion revolving around the issue of whether today’s life is more comfortable than our grandparent’s life in their childhood. In my opinion, nowadays our existence is easier than it was 50 years ago. I will explain my position providing examples to support my point of view.

First of all, an opportunity for communication between people rises up to the other level. Now we are living in the era of computers, global web networks and cell phones. But a few years ago, the only way to keep in touch with the friends or relatives was paper letters. People were waiting for an answer for a long time, and there was a big chance of not getting an answer or possibility for loss of the letter somewhere on the way. Nowadays, people are sending millions of e-mails every day and one second is needed to say “hi” to a person who is thousands of miles away from you.

Secondly, 50 years ago Russian people were struggling with a problem of food accessibility on the shelves of the supermarkets. Today, our supermarkets are bursting with the different kinds of clothes, food, medicines, and we can get anything we want just by visiting the nearest shopping centre across the street. My grandmother once said that it seems luxurious to her because when she was young, she had to buy all products using a limited number of special cards. Therefore, she was able to buy her first pair of jeans only when she was 30 years old.

Finally, It was extremely expensive to travel, and people had no chance to go abroad. People had slight opportunities to travel abroad because of the political issues and particular qualities of our country. Today, it is much easier to explore other countries, and sometimes you even don’t need to get a visa for going to the particular place. People became more flexible in their movements as the travellers, they can easily buy a ticket to the closest aeroplane to an exotic country with no worry and fear whether they will be able to come back or not.

In conclusion, I want to say that our everyday life became easier in comparison to our grandparent’s childhood. I hope that the examples given above have sufficiently expressed my opinion.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, in conclusion, first of all, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1845.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 383.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81723237598 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87138610593 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579634464752 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0075271621 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.5 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2777777778 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 5.45110844103 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
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: 0.158058544764 0.236089414692 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0471304413156 0.076458572812 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354987227129 0.0737576698707 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0903816025182 0.150856017488 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0402719556833 0.0645574589148 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 86.8835125448 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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