Your friend plans to reduce his living expense He has following three options 1 Find a roommate to share the room to reduce costs 2 Buy fewer expensive electronic devices like smart phones 3 Cook more at home buy fewer expensive food items and not go to r | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Your friend plans to reduce his living expense. He has following three options

1. Find a roommate to share the room to reduce costs

2. Buy fewer expensive electronic devices, like smart phones

3. Cook more at home (buy fewer expensive food items and not go to restaurants

which do you recommend? Why?

Facing with heavy inflation which increases the cost of living, an increasing number of people make a decisions to cut the their living budget: Some people choose to curtail the expense for housing; some people prefer to cut down expenses of electronic products; some people are predisposed to reduce the expense for food. From my perspective, budget cuts on electronic devices is a desirable option.

First, finding another roommate won’t reduce the living expense at all. Granted, the rent for an apartment can be reduced since another one can share the bills paid for the fixed rent cost. However, other fees can be created when a new roommate move to the house: another roommate will also use the kitchens or bathrooms in their routine life, which might double the fees for electricity or water. Meanwhile, the money paid for daily maintenance will also be increased. All these fees will easily cancel out the saved rent cost.

Second, the budget won’t be cut down by cooking more at home. Granted, purchasing ingredients and then processing them at home can save money since usually the price of food bought in restaurants is higher than the raw materials, including operating cost and processing cost. However, simply buying less expensive items will cause some healthy problems, which might create another spending. In fact, cheaper food ingredients are less healthier than other expensive ingredients and thus people who consume them are more likely to have healthy problems, like obesity, diabetes, etc. As a result, they tend to get some medicine or medical treatments, which can cost them heavily. In this case, the saved money can be canceled out.

Compared with the two former options, spending less money on electronic devices is more viable and effective in reducing the expense. As a matter of fact, the electronic devices keep updated quickly, which can impose a heavy economic burden on people who desire to buy many of them. Additionally, those latest devices are not indispensable to our daily life in that the services brought by them are almost the same as those old and cheaper electronic products. Take Apple, a company that produces electronic devices as an example, Apple always updates their products quickly, putting the newest version of Iphone every year. As those products are put on sales, they are costly since oceans of people are fanatical about it, which drag their price to rise. If people always pay for those latest versions of Iphone, they have to bear the high price as well as the heavy economic burden on their budget. However, despite the lighter weight and charming appearances, the services provided by the latest version of Iphone resemble the former version of Iphone and smart phones of other brands which are much cheaper. In this case, keeping old phones and purchasing other less money-consuming phones can help to save money considerably while does not exert an influence on people’s life.

In conclusion, in terms of how to curtail the living expense, buying less expensive electronic products should be prioritized.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 101, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a decision' or simply 'decisions'?
Suggestion: a decision; decisions
...ng, an increasing number of people make a decisions to cut the their living budget: Some pe...
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Line 1, column 120, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...umber of people make a decisions to cut the their living budget: Some people choose to cu...
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Line 5, column 430, Rule ID: LESS_COMPARATIVE[1]
Message: Non-standard use of the comparative or superlative. Did you mean 'less healthy'?
Suggestion: less healthy
.... In fact, cheaper food ingredients are less healthier than other expensive ingredients and th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, then, thus, well, while, in conclusion, in fact, as a matter of fact, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2584.0 1977.66487455 131% => OK
No of words: 505.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11683168317 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53112842751 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49900990099 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 808.2 618.680645161 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.205201123 48.9658058833 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.454545455 100.406767564 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9545454545 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95454545455 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230113886144 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705721413684 0.076458572812 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0658584557107 0.0737576698707 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14002231928 0.150856017488 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032478343291 0.0645574589148 50% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 11.7677419355 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 86.8835125448 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, then, thus, well, while, in conclusion, in fact, as a matter of fact, as a result, as well as

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