Do you agree of disagree with following statement Playing computer games is a waste of time Children should not be allowed to play them Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

Computer games are undeniably a crucial thing in human life these days. A controversial argument that is often raised regarding this topic is whether to allow children to play them or not. If I were obliged to choose, I would think that children should not be allowed to play computer games for several reasons, on a few of which I will elaborate subsequently.

To begin with, I believe that computer games are addictive. Hardly can anyone deny the fact that computer games are designed to be addictive. Being addict to something is very bad. It makes you spend time on it more than you should. I believe my opinion is partially influenced by my personal experience. You see, I remember when I was younger and a new game was released and I started to play that, before I know I got addicted to it and I couldn't leave it until I finished it.

Secondly, when we play computer games, we don't feel time passing. It's what computer games were made for, they were designed to pass our time. The more we play, the more we engage. For instance, I know someone who plays computer games a lot. One time he said to me that when he's playing games, he gets so deep in-game and it's like he's in another world and he doesn't notice time passing or anything else. There were times that he misses his classes due to his concentration on playing computer games.

Finally, most of the games were designed for users to have fun. They don't teach anything to players. I think children can spend their time learning stuff and gain knowledge instead of playing games for nothing. For example, I know a student who spends most of his time playing games, not surprisingly, his grades are awful and he's not doing well at school.

I resist the temptation to explain more, hoping there is enough information already. To sum it up, as the reasons suggest, children should not be allowed to play computer games. Because not only they're addicting, but also they waste time and teach nothing to children. So I think we should not let children play computer games.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, well, for example, for instance, i think, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 52.1666666667 69% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1977.66487455 85% => OK
No of words: 364.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.6043956044 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46161204757 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535714285714 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 618.680645161 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4474968323 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 72.8695652174 100.406767564 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8260869565 20.6045352989 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86956521739 5.45110844103 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.5376344086 163% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.353340306287 0.236089414692 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107480569709 0.076458572812 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0720284537769 0.0737576698707 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210955746762 0.150856017488 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509527217824 0.0645574589148 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.2 11.7677419355 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 58.1214874552 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.1575268817 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.1 10.9000537634 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.16 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 86.8835125448 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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