TPO-13 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Everything in life is temporary such as customs, traditions, situations etc but the only thing that is permanent is change. However, is it true to say that the importance of the extended family has decreased now as compared to the past or is it stills the same? Well, many people have diverse view point on this issue; some think that it is still popular and essential as there are many families who still like to live together as a joint family. On the other hand, my opinion is not alike due to the following reasons and justifications.

First, today people want to have their own personal space. Although, initially it might sound a bit offending but it is true, in today’s modern world most of the people including women in it prefer to have a place where they can live their own life in their own way. On the contrary, in extended family it is not possible as there are a lot of restrictions by the elders of the family which is a major issue that restrains the young generation to want to live in such an environment for example my sister lives in a separate house with her husband. Though, her in laws stay in same city but as she wants liberty to live in her own way, she does not prefer to stay with them in the same house. When I observe such behavior, I feel that the culture of extended family has faded enormously.

Second, there are more conflicts in extended family because of the generation gap. As we all know that due to the advent of new technologies, people now have different life style from the elder people who did not have such life style and gadgets. There is a huge gap between the ideology of two different generations and this difference often leads to frequent fights and conflicts. I can say this strongly as I have seen it in my own house. My fifteen year old son likes to party late night and get up late in the morning. Also, he is addicted to junk food and I like to eat healthy home cooked food and due to these small issues we often have a argument that gets heat up at some occasions as well. This made me realize that after few years even my son will not prefer to live with me.

To recapitulate, I would like to say that though there are enormous benefits of an extended family like one will never feel lonely and depressed as there will always be some or the other member of the family to talk to. In addition, children get more love and care in joint family and so they do not get spoiled easily but due to the above mentioned causes its popularity is reducing day by day.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... its popularity is reducing day by day.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'for example', 'i feel', 'in addition', 'such as', 'it is true', 'on the contrary', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.197265625 0.229887763892 86% => OK
Verbs: 0.169921875 0.158761421928 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.109375 0.0866891130778 126% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0546875 0.046263068375 118% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0703125 0.0685040099705 103% => OK
Prepositions: 0.1171875 0.118717715034 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0234375 0.0351676179071 67% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.39368903559 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.04296875 0.0309702414327 139% => OK
Particles: 0.00390625 0.00188951952338 207% => OK
Determiners: 0.080078125 0.0887237588012 90% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.013671875 0.0209618222197 65% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.015625 0.0139019557991 112% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2531.0 2387.08602151 106% => OK
No of words: 472.0 408.028673835 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36228813559 5.86048508987 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.48200974243 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.241525423729 0.338922669872 71% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.167372881356 0.251872472559 66% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.129237288136 0.174417080927 74% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0762711864407 0.112833075102 68% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39368903559 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506355932203 0.524397521467 97% => OK
Word variations: 58.7301188842 59.2087087015 99% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6684587814 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.2222222222 20.5533526081 128% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9961932949 48.84282405 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.611111111 120.699889404 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2222222222 20.5533526081 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.888888888889 0.644075263715 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.54480286738 36% => OK
Readability: 42.9595103578 45.7405998639 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.14569536424 1.45489161554 79% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336542328694 0.300154397459 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108639039063 0.103427244359 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0766123091519 0.0752933317313 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.502867657213 0.497263757937 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.154775224792 0.151897553556 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139762661339 0.114077575197 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791794330418 0.0781384742642 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.406821060753 0.336927656856 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0217439348495 0.067059652881 32% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254047609792 0.210909579961 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370178315846 0.0618886996521 60% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8870967742 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.86379928315 52% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.91756272401 81% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 8.42114695341 131% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.4623655914 81% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.75985663082 145% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.6433691756 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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