Friendships can be very meaningful and special, but also very complicated. What are the qualities of a great friend? What are some things that can weaken a close relationship over time?
There is a saying that "A friend in need is a friend indeed and that a good friend sticks closer than a brother ".
Close friendships are very important, even though sometimes they can be challenging to maintain. Even when a close friend is understanding, honest, and fun, the friendship can suffer when the complications of life cause friends to drift apart.
Friends can fulfill many roles, but one of the most important is to be understanding. When someone is struggling, perhaps with an illness, a death in the family, or a recent breakup, a good friend will listen carefully and offer support without judgement. Friends are also honest. They will not say one thing to your face, but do something else later. A true friend will also tell the truth even if it is uncomfortable. For instance, she will offer her real opinion about your latest hairstyle, even if she thinks it looks terrible. Finally, a healthy friendship is fun. Friends know how to make each other laugh, and love to spend time doing things that both find enjoyable. Sometimes, the most meaningful moments between great friends can be as simple as having a good conversation over coffee.
However, even close friendships can fade over time. The main culprit, at least in my experience, is that friends drift apart because other priorities get in the way. When people are young, it is very easy to spend a lot of time with friends. Yet, with age comes new responsibilities and much less time to devote to others. New parents, for example, do not have much time to do anything other than focus on their baby. Work also puts pressure on time. Getting up early in the morning, meeting deadlines, and attending social events can severely limit the amount of time that’s left to devote to friends. All of these factors can take a toll. Without regular contact, a friendship can easily fade.
To sum up, nevertheless, even when great friends have been separated for a long time, they often still feel very close. Great friendships can withstand great challenges when two people share a deep connection.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, still, at least, for example, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1742.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 356.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89325842697 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68538591274 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581460674157 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 510.3 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 9.0 2.52805611222 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.2569452514 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.7391304348 106.682146367 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4782608696 20.7667163134 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78260869565 7.06120827912 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.01903807615 159% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.67935871743 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332138641047 0.244688304435 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101204970135 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699045484408 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188120355455 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610033393851 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.0946893788 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 50.2224549098 146% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 11.3001002004 60% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.58950901804 87% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 78.4519038076 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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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.