Some people believe that sport is an essential part of school life for children, while
others feel it should be purely optional. Discuss these opposing views and give your own opinion.
You should give reasons for your answer, and include ideas and examples from your own
knowledge and experience.
The sport continues to be a controversial topic in the school curriculum, just as the sport itself has
become a controversial industry in some respects. There are valid opinions on both sides, which I
will consider now.
On the one hand, some people feel that sport uses up time which could be better spent on
academic subjects such as exam preparation. Besides, it might be said that it is unwise to force
children to do activities which they have no interest in. After all, some youngsters are just not sporty and should be allowed to study instead. Finally, there are question marks over the wholesomeness of
sport itself, with drugging and corruption scandals increasingly common, as we see in cycling at
present. Some people believe that this lack of morals sets a poor example for young people.
On the other hand, though, one major benefit of sport is that it helps children’s physical
development at an important stage. If all their time was spent studying, they would become unfit and
their minds would eventually suffer. Furthermore, supporters of school sport emphasize the
importance of team building in sports such as football or hockey, which is often felt to be excellent
preparation for adulthood. Finally, many people feel that a competitive spirit, so important today, is
fostered by sports at an early age. It is notable, for example, that many successful business people
excelled in sport at school.
Overall, I feel that sport should be compulsory for school children because of the positive effect
on their mental and physical development outweighs the negatives. This is as long as children are
given a wide range to choose from, to ensure their interest is high, and that the sports industry itself
maintains the highest standards of conduct
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ingly common, as we see in cycling at present. Some people believe that this lack of ...
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...hat it helps children's physical development at an important stage. If all their tim...
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...studying, they would become unfit and their minds would eventually suffer. Furtherm...
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...titive spirit, so important today, is fostered by sports at an early age. It is notabl...
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...ildren because of the positive effect on their mental and physical development o...
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...re their interest is high, and that the sports industry itself maintains the highest...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, furthermore, if, so, after all, for example, i feel, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22789115646 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7503528396 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581632653061 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6671783723 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.785714286 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92857142857 7.06120827912 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 18.0 4.38176352705 411% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.01903807615 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237041037626 0.244688304435 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841271027977 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543614540231 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0744536623834 0.151304729494 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605966916552 0.056905535591 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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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.