What are the advantages and disadvantages for children watching television?
Nowadays, a lot of children spend much of their time to watch TV. The number of TV channels is growing daily and a lot of cartoons, movies are being filmed and shown. This phenomenon has both pros and cons, and this essay will look at them.
Over the last decade, many scientific and educational programs have been introduced. One of the advantages is that children can learn new things, skills while watching them. For example, from each episode of popular scientific program "Science in action" you can learn the basics of physics, engineering and even robotics. As a result, children will be more well-rounded.
Another advantage of watching TV is that children can be aware of all actions and things, that are happening all over the world. Children could watch news and become aware of all trends, that are going on. As a result, youngsters will be always in touch, moreover they will develop generally.
If we look at downsides, the main one is damage to one's health. A huge number of researches have been conducted and there is no doubt that spending a lot of time next to TV may have a negative impact on one's eyes. In addition, youngsters may watch inappropriate things on TV, while their parents are away. In case they do that, their mental development will be affected.
To sum up, despite being efficient and useful for children, TV has plenty of downsides. If children use TV as an educational resource, they can take advantage of it and become more smarter and intelligent.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...at downsides, the main one is damage to ones health. A huge number of researches hav...
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Message: Use only 'smarter' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: smarter
...hey can take advantage of it and become more smarter and intelligent.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, may, moreover, so, well, while, for example, in addition, no doubt, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => 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: 1251.0 1615.20841683 77% => OK
No of words: 258.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8488372093 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72746239915 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 176.041082164 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562015503876 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 375.3 506.74238477 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.2463195075 49.4020404114 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.1875 106.682146367 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.125 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.25 7.06120827912 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188676995719 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677417824096 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0704365594848 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112622609954 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555133557284 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 12.4159519038 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 78.4519038076 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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