Keeping old friends is more important than making new ones
Friends are the family a person gets to choose. They are essential in several important aspects of everybody's life. While keeping old friends is, in fact, extremely healthy to a person's social life, the most important skill one can have is the ability to make new friends.
First of all, modernity has changed the way we conduct our lives. Fifty years ago, a person usually would be born, study, get a job and get married, all in the same city or in it's vicinities. Nowadays, this situation is very unlikely to happen. The new communications' technologies and the wide range of information avaliable allow us to study in another state, get a job in a different country or meet a person that lives thousands of miles away from our hometown. These major changes in our lives makes the ability to make new friends very usefull, and the people who try to stick only to old friends will tend to get lonely.
Moreover, even if a person gets to live in the same city for long periods of his/her life, it may be really difficult to socialize with the same people for that long. That is because the others will too either move somewhere else or get jobs, classes or relationships that will make it difficult for them to spend time with old friends. This is an aspect of everyone's lives, and the reason is the modern way of living.
To top it all, even though old friends are often considered to be the best friends a person can have, the fact is that when we are kids, we don't have much choice when bonding with other children. Most friendships made during childhood are circumstancial, since we don't get to choose where or who we want to hang out with. Kids make friends with other kids in school, in their neighbourhoods or with their parent's friends. On the other hand, an adult has the opportunity to choose a friend that has similar qualities and other things in common. Therefore, friends made during the adulthood are more likely to become better friends than the old ones.
In other words, while it is not unreasonable to value the importance of keeping old friends in our lives, making new friends is more important in order to stablish a healthier social life, specially in the modern days, when the new way of life we have adopted drives us to different places every time we make a major choice.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 177, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a person' or simply 'persons'?
Suggestion: a person; persons
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Line 4, column 141, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
..., the fact is that when we are kids, we dont have much choice when bonding with othe...
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Line 4, column 264, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... childhood are circumstancial, since we dont get to choose where or who we want to h...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, moreover, really, so, therefore, while, in fact, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => 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: 1888.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 413.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.57142857143 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48000759128 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501210653753 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.3054406178 48.9658058833 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.058823529 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2941176471 20.6045352989 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 5.45110844103 121% => 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 : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.345775145885 0.236089414692 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101536464231 0.076458572812 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122872362732 0.0737576698707 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207325429896 0.150856017488 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119937587846 0.0645574589148 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.52 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.