Do 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. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Friendships could be like a boat floating in the sea where storms may appear quite often and the boat with genuine friendship could last forever and I believe this kind of friendship with only a small number of people can be the most valuable. Therefore, making friends with a few people for a long a time can contribute to more happiness when compared with the ability of making new friends.
To begin with, in a small group with only a few people, we can help each other more frequently and effectively. For instance, in middle school, I usually discussed difficult math problems with Brandon and Amy after school. Before the exam, we could help each other solve problems and work together to make plans. This friendship lasted until we attended university in different provinces. Until now, we still keep in contact with each other though we are in different majors. This is incredibly the happiest moment I will never forget.
Besides, we can share our real feelings with our friends. Friends can motivate me when I am depressed and encourage me when I feel desperate. In our life, the real friendship doesn't necessarily equal the number of friends, but those friends we can genuinely talk with and they can be our listeners. For example, in the last semester, I failed one subject called structural mechanics. I was extremely worried about being criticized by my parents. And I told my friend Jackson about this and he didn't scold me for not working hard, but instead said that this exam was just a lesson which would teach me how to adapt myself to the new college life. Jackson used his patience to encourage me and I successfully passed all the exams in the following three years with Jackson's help, which I contend could be more significant for happiness than making more new friends.
Furthermore, while new friends could bring more opportunities, they could not provide us with more happiness for the following reason. When we have so many friends we might lose ourselves to cater for different people. Nearly two hundred students major in civil engineering in my university, and it is easy to make more than ten friends. However, ten friends mean ten different characteristics and it is difficult to consider all feelings when we are having fun. And it is possible that some people may feel uncomfortable and unwilling to continue this friendship.
In a nutshell, while the ability to make new friends easily may benefit us in our social life, it cannot bring much more happiness than the ability to maintain friendships with only a few friends for a long time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 194, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...lieve this kind of friendship with only a small number of people can be the most valuable. Theref...
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Line 5, column 176, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...erate. In our life, the real friendship doesnt necessarily equal the number of friends...
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Line 5, column 494, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...old my friend Jackson about this and he didnt scold me for not working hard, but inst...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, while, for example, for instance, i feel, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => 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: 2144.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 442.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85067873303 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65206626962 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504524886878 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 645.3 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9818983686 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.095238095 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0476190476 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2380952381 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
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: 0.334368756023 0.236089414692 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0987434289855 0.076458572812 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107587476191 0.0737576698707 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227864287279 0.150856017488 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100080575203 0.0645574589148 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.