TPO 49- Independent writingDo you agree or disagree with the following statement?The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.

There have appeared endless discussions over making friends. Some people argue that maintaining friendships with a small number of people over a long time is more crucial to being happy than easily making new friends. Personally, I approve of this argument.

On one hand, what takes my priority is the happiness of people. It is well noted that after a long time being friends with someone, these people surely have a great understanding of each other strengths, flaw, personalities, hobbies, etc. Because of knowing the others so well, it is highly likely that they are able to share with these friends, to sympathize with others’ pain as well as celebrating their happiness. As a result, they develop a close bond, and their friendship is greatly strengthened. Being such close friends, they are bound to bring each other more happiness in life. More interestingly, the fact is that knowing each other for a long time, together experiencing many hardships in life leads to trust between friends. They can expect help from their friends whenever in need, and they would be willing to return the favor anytime. Subsequently, having good friends to back them up allow people to overcome difficulties much easier. They are relieved from stress and worries, opening up opportunities to have a happier life. Indeed, maintained friendships with only a few fill people lives with joy and happiness.

On the other hand, some people might say that having friendships with just a tiny number of people means they interact with only a small group, limiting their social ability. As a consequence, people would be isolated from the world, and they no longer are happy but instead sad and depressed. However, that is not necessarily the case. In fact, maintaining friendship with few people does not mean they do not socialize with other people. They still take part in social activities like any other person. Furthermore, in a small group of friends, people have a tendency to know each other more personally. It follows that they have stronger relationships and bonds towards each other. Hence, it is possible that they find experiences together more enjoyable and fun. With that kind of friendship, people certainly are happy and enjoy their lives a lot more. With no doubt, the claim that maintaining friendships with few people prevents people from happiness is intrinsically false.

In summary, by sharing with friends, help one another and stronger bonds, having friendships over a long time with a small number of friends fills people with happiness. It is highly recommended that people should take my writing into detailed consideration to make an appropriate decision on making friends.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 114, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...argue that maintaining friendships with a small number of people over a long time is more crucial...
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Line 3, column 950, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...low people to overcome difficulties much easier. They are relieved from stress an...
^^
Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...aving friendships over a long time with a small number of friends fills people with happiness. It...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, still, then, well, in fact, in summary, kind of, no doubt, as a result, as well as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => 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: 2263.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 440.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14318181818 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77388109376 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502272727273 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 666.0 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2523938699 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.52 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72 5.45110844103 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 11.8709677419 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304685485179 0.236089414692 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0974234474965 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0993088993758 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243139145361 0.150856017488 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0560589478722 0.0645574589148 87% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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