Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It is hard to deny that making many new friends is the ability that fascinates the majority of people. This kind of iead may make people to generate the idea that having new friends can bring them much happiness. However, af far as I am concerned, this statement contains both logical and factual fallicies. Since personal and group aspects are considered, I do hold the point of view that maintaining friednships with a small number of people during a long time contributes greatly to happiness.
First of all, owning close relationships with few people can help you when you are having problems. Since you possess this relationship for a long period of time, your friends and you must know each other well, which indicates that these friends are the ones you need the most when you are confronting difficulitits. Take one case of mine, an ordinary student in China. When I was a fresh man of the university, everything seemed new to me. At the first few weeks, I could hardly catch up the pace of normal campus life, since it was the first time for me to fly to another province and live in a dormitory with other three students. When I was upset and frustrated by my own campus experience, one of my senior school classmates contacted me through Wechat and we had thorough discussions for several time. Had it not been for his help, I wouldn't get used to the fast pace of university in a short time. Thanks to him, smile showed again on my face and I bacame more outgoing ever since. In fact, such situations may occur on many other people. It is the help of their close friends that contributes to solving their current obstacle and make them be in a good mood.
In addition, having a group of close friends can help you make progress together in academic field. From my personal point of view, having academic discussions with close friends can make all of you have a deeper understanding of the subject you learn. At the end of last semester, toghther with three of my friends, we reviewed our major courses together and communicated with each other about our own understandings of certain point in the subject. When the final exams came, all of us were not afraid of them at all. Without our collaborating study, I believe we would not be that confident.
Indeed, the ability to making many new friends easily is intriguing, but what counts is not the number, but the quality. Only when you have contacted with your friends for a period of time, can you say that you truely have "friends".
In a nutshell, because of the analysis above, I sincerely suggest that maintaing close relationships with a small group of people during a long period of time is of greater importance. Though some people may oppose me, I believe they will compromise after being exposed to my article.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 420, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
... view that maintaining friednships with a small number of people during a long time contributes g...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 148, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ou possess this relationship for a long period of time, your friends and you must know each ot...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 841, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...l time. Had it not been for his help, I wouldnt get used to the fast pace of university...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 175, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... have contacted with your friends for a period of time, can you say that you truely have &apos...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 145, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...h a small group of people during a long period of time is of greater importance. Though some p...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, well, in addition, in fact, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 43.0788530466 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 52.1666666667 144% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2312.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 493.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68965517241 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69213674952 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509127789047 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1458087853 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.52173913 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4347826087 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.60869565217 5.45110844103 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307415954402 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841694016229 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0707083798763 0.0737576698707 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19018679906 0.150856017488 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0733676233962 0.0645574589148 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 10.9000537634 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 420, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
... view that maintaining friednships with a small number of people during a long time contributes g...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 148, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ou possess this relationship for a long period of time, your friends and you must know each ot...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 841, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...l time. Had it not been for his help, I wouldnt get used to the fast pace of university...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 175, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... have contacted with your friends for a period of time, can you say that you truely have &apos...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 145, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...h a small group of people during a long period of time is of greater importance. Though some p...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, well, in addition, in fact, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 43.0788530466 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 52.1666666667 144% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2312.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 493.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68965517241 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69213674952 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509127789047 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1458087853 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.52173913 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4347826087 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.60869565217 5.45110844103 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307415954402 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841694016229 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0707083798763 0.0737576698707 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19018679906 0.150856017488 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0733676233962 0.0645574589148 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 10.9000537634 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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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.