In the past shopping was a routine domestic task. Many people nowadays regard it as a hobby.To what extend do you think this is a positive trend.

Purchasing goods has been a necessity in the history of mankind. These days, some argue that this phenomenon has become more a pleasure than an essential activity. In my opinion, it is not always a positive trend.

A simple explanation for this new trend, is that people have more possibilities. Larger incomes and a higher variety of products have changed shopping habits. In addition, people are not restricted to the nearest store, they can choose between shopping centres, online-retailers or even travel to foreign countries. Additionally, not only do shopping centres sells food and clothes, but they also offer lots of places to spend free-time and relax, for example bowling alleys, restaurants, cafes and cinemas. This fact has made the process of shopping even more enjoyable, a way to relax, during which people visit some of these places with family or friends and spend their leisure time pleasantly.

According to other opinions and I tend to agree with them, people should attend some kind of educational programs, extracurricular and sport activities in terms of hobbies, instead of wasting their time on shopping. Those who buy for pleasure, should consider carefully what is crucial for them and be rational before making a purchase, otherwise they risk wasting their hard-worked money on unnecessary things. More than that, if they buy constantly, they will have a lot of products that they will never use.
To sum up, even if shopping can be an enjoyable hobby and might help some buyers to relax and overcome their stress, it still comes with considerable drawbacks, such as high expenditure, time-wasting and a collection of worthless products.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, still, for example, in addition, kind of, such as, in my opinion, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1408.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 270.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21481481481 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85892341148 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.640740740741 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 427.5 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.8335509135 49.4020404114 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.333333333 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.110772426435 0.244688304435 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0461641590382 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0382444036293 0.0667982634062 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0619930791238 0.151304729494 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0436494752109 0.056905535591 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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