Some young children spend a great amount of their time practicing sports. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
No one can deny that there are both positive and negative aspects of exercising and practicing sports. It is well known, sports play a major role on child’s development by improving the physical growth and teaching a myriad of helpful skills for their future. However, every coin has two sides, and this statement can also be applied to sports. Spending excessive time playing sports can also affect negatively. Some advantages and disadvantages will be exposed in the subsequent paragraphs.
To begin with, there are a lot of studies pointing out the beneficial aspects of physical activities. Sports consist basically in the repetition of several exercises, which are responsible for increasing muscular strength, resilience and improving mental health. Additionally, it also teaches important abilities such as team work, time-management, leadership and discipline, crucial skills in the modern society. I have to admit that my opinion on this matter, has been profoundly influenced by my own personal experience. You see, sports taught me how to work on teams, aiming to become a better athlete and professional. As a result, I developed this skill that is highly valuable in the job market.
Secondly, the practice of sports contains several dangers; The most common are injuries and psychological diseases. Sometimes improper practice for a long period of time without professional guidance may lead to strain a muscle or a ligament, which could affect child’s growth. Besides that, concentrating on sports means expending less time on studies and other activities. If a child gets too tired due to excessive practice of sports, this would affect negatively the child’s mental health, imposing a lot of physical and psychological stress. As a result, this situation can lead to an imbalance life. Parents tend to pressurize their children to study well, and in some cases it can be translated in more pressure put over their children’s shoulder.
In conclusion, there are several advantages and disadvantages for children that practice sports. It is the parent’s duty to guide their children towards a well-balanced life, making sure sports do not represent any kind of impair on child’s development.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result, in some cases, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39367816092 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05642320642 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600574712644 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 506.74238477 113% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.0295354372 49.4020404114 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7894736842 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3157894737 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.10526315789 7.06120827912 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.214602069148 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644025651661 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464416904128 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136324490999 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425544163894 0.056905535591 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => 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: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => 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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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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