Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

In my opinion, keeping your old friends in your life is more beneficial than making new ones because of three reasons: one, they have always been there for me when I needed help; two, you have years of experience together and finally, they know all your strengths and weaknesses.

Old friends have through thick and thin for me, no matter what, they have always stood by my side when I was in a rough spot. I remember one time when my parents got divorced, I was very young back then and very angry and shocked at the same time, so many mixed emotions running through my mind and I could not have gone through it without my best friend since childhood whom he had his parents divorced too and I talked with him about it and with time, I slowly managed to pick myself up.

Another reason for holding on your old friends instead of making new friendships is because you have history together, you know each other for a very long time and you found their personality and gained trust. With that in mind, it is easier to share your feelings and problems with someone you trust. With new friends, trust does not build that fast, it takes time to develop and sharing something personal with them might be difficult.

Finally, a third reason keeping your old friends is better than making new friends is because they know your likes and dislikes, your strengths and weaknesses. New friends don't know these things first hand, it takes a bit of time to know each other more. An old friend can advise you on an issue where your facing and knows what is good or bad for you. For example, I was having trouble deciding what field of study should I choose after finishing high-school and one of my best friends recommended me to do a medical career because I loved to help people.

Because of these reasons, always supporting, years of experience and knowing your strengths and weaknesses, I strongly believe that keeping old friends is more important thank making new friends.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 173, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...r strengths and weaknesses. New friends dont know these things first hand, it takes ...
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Line 7, column 303, Rule ID: YOUR[1]
Message: Did you mean 'you're' or 'you are'?
Suggestion: you're; you are
...friend can advise you on an issue where your facing and knows what is good or bad fo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, so, then, third, for example, you know, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 52.1666666667 73% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1625.0 1977.66487455 82% => OK
No of words: 352.0 407.700716846 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.61647727273 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28521957358 2.67179642975 86% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539772727273 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 618.680645161 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.6003584229 53% => 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: 32.0 20.1344086022 159% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.1845158872 48.9658058833 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.727272727 100.406767564 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.0 20.6045352989 155% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63636363636 5.45110844103 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.326419633854 0.236089414692 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152303306936 0.076458572812 199% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100343041419 0.0737576698707 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215082442367 0.150856017488 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0848257441004 0.0645574589148 131% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 11.7677419355 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.38 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.2 10.1575268817 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.11 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 86.8835125448 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.002688172 170% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.0537634409 147% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.247311828 166% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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