Some people believe that all children should have a pet or an animal to look after. Other
people disagree, however, saying that this depends on a child’s circumstances. Consider these opposing
views, and give your own opinion.
It is often said that children benefit from caring for domestic animals, especially in today’s technologyfocussed
world. However, the issue is not entirely straightforward, and arguments can also be made against the
idea. This essay will discuss the debate, and give a concluding view.
On the one hand, those who support the ownership of pets cite the various benefits that the activity
can bring to a child. These range from understanding nutrition, to learning about biology and daily routines.
For example, food selection and exercise activities contribute to this strand of development, which adds greatly
to a child’s all-round education. Another argument is the emotional support that children receive from pets,
meaning that the child feels more secure and thus more confident.
By contrast, opponents of this view point out that not all children live in a situation where pet
keeping is advisable, or even possible. Examples can be seen in less affluent countries, where the expense of
maintaining a pet may be prohibitive. In addition, many children live in unstable family environments, due to
such issues as unemployment or political turbulence. For these families, pets would probably suffer neglect,
meaning that it would be unfair to keep them, or possibly even dangerous. Finally, it must be said that not all
young people actually want to keep a pet, because their interests lie elsewhere. For these youngsters, animal
ownership should not be encouraged.
Overall, it seems advisable that the decision to keep a pet should be based on a child’s interest, ability
and family circumstances, rather than on a general view that ‘all children’ should have animals. It would appear
that this serves the interests of both the children and the pets involved.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, however, may, so, thus, for example, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1526.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39222614841 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97340952525 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611307420495 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1287156991 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.733333333 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8666666667 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 7.06120827912 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 18.0 4.38176352705 411% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211879402207 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691849555623 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470829059841 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0649784716981 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0475543953428 0.056905535591 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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