Nowadays consumer goods have become the most important part of people s lives Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages

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Nowadays consumer goods have become the most important part of people 's lives. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Submitted by Laziza on Mon, 08/19/2019 - 16:50

These days consumer goods have gained much significance in our lives since growing consumerism has become a function of our society. This essay will argue that this development has more drawbacks than benefits.

On the one hand, it cannot be denied that giving consumer items utmost importance in our lives is advantageous. First, they improve the quality of life making it easier, more comfortable and convenient as it would be hard to imagine our everyday lives without consumer durables and technology. Second, it is no surprise that in this era of materialism, one can earn respect and enjoy high social status when they purchase latest models of things, brand new clothes, fancy cars and so forth to have some certain superiority. Third, the increasing need for consumer items make people work and strive hard to earn for payment, and thus, strengthen both individuals and businesses.

On the other hand, this urging desire for buying goods, luxury and extravagance is not as beneficial as it may seem. The more people become materialistic, the faster they deprive of moral and human values. More often, they tend to enjoy the presence of things rather than people. Besides, making consumer needs as a top priority means high pressure, stress or even rising levels of personal debts that can result from excessive buying. Again, this could also lead to health and psychological problems since most of the time, such people have all necessities but no peace of mind. But, on the top of that, the production and consumption of commodities requires the use of natural resources, running factories and mass production which can be the cause environmental concern.

In conclusion, consumer goods have an integral part in our lives, however, considering presented views, I would say that this dependence poses more dangers than benefits.

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Average: 8.8 (9 votes)
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IELTS Writing Task II - IELTS Academic

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 7, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'days'' or 'day's'?
Suggestion: days'; day's
These days consumer goods have gained much signifi...
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Line 3, column 414, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'purchase the latest'.
Suggestion: purchase the latest
... and enjoy high social status when they purchase latest models of things, brand new clothes, fa...
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Line 5, column 708, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of natural resources, running factories and mass production which can be the cau...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, third, thus, in conclusion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1547.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 299.0 315.596192385 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17391304348 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71909439813 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632107023411 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1183847124 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.0 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.30769230769 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213884216849 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.069115872124 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540197838772 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139586538757 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386417238159 0.056905535591 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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