In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centres or malls to do their shopping. Is this a positive development or a negative development?

Of late, more and more customers are moving to large shopping centers and malls rather than the small local shops, and this has forced these shops to close. In my opinion this is a negative development which can make people lose their jobs and also it may affect the tourism.

One serious problem that can arise from the closure of the small shops is that the competition between the small shops and the large shopping centers will disappear. As a result the large malls will stop providing discounts on the goods as they do not face competition; therefore, they will not reduce the prices. For example, malls offer discounts throughout the year to keep their customers away from the small shops. Thus, the closure of small shops will affect the customers.

Another issue is that many people will lose their jobs and become unemployed. In other words, when the small shops close, people employed by them will lose their source of income, and that will put them in a difficult situation. For example, many families run small shops to earn their living. When they go out of business, their families will struggle to survive.

Finally, the closure of small shops in some places will affect the tourism industry. Many tourists prefer the small shops in the streets instead of the big malls, and the reason behind this is that walking in an old beautiful street watching people doing performances and other people shopping is more joyous than being inside a large building of concrete.

In conclusion, although it has become easier for people to do shopping in one large center, the closure of small malls has brought too many problems for this to be considered a positive development.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, if, may, so, therefore, thus, as for, for example, in conclusion, as a result, in my opinion, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.48453608247 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 4.92783505155 244% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 5.05154639175 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 3.03092783505 264% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 24.0 32.9175257732 73% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 26.3917525773 121% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.85567010309 130% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1411.0 937.175257732 151% => OK
No of words: 288.0 206.0 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89930555556 4.54256449028 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 3.78020617076 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34962227313 2.54303337028 92% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 127.690721649 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493055555556 0.622605031667 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 408.6 290.88556701 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.41237113402 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 9.13402061856 22% => OK
Article: 3.0 0.824742268041 364% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 1.83505154639 218% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.463917525773 647% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 1.44329896907 277% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6804123711 103% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 16.3608247423 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.3127305053 44.8134815571 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.538461538 76.5299724578 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1538461538 16.8248392259 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.46153846154 4.34317383033 218% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.29896907216 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 2.54639175258 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 7.41237113402 27% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 1.49484536082 468% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.94845360825 101% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.366884857455 0.216113520407 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140039955367 0.0766984524023 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674743424393 0.0603063233224 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222178849976 0.12726935374 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577529946143 0.0580467560999 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 8.37731958763 152% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 70.7449484536 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 3.82989690722 81% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 7.45979381443 127% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 8.71597938144 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 7.59969072165 101% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 41.2886597938 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 8.62886597938 156% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 8.54432989691 126% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 8.15463917526 135% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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