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 ex

Many people have different opinions that we need to maintain friendships with a small number of people or make a lot of new friends. If I were asked, I will definitely agree that maintaining friendships with a small group of people is easier and more comfortable for me. This is because I'm an indoor and shy person. Also, I might be busy with my job and taking care of my family. I'll explore these reasons in the following essay.

First, I'm an indoor person, so hanging out and meeting with a lot of new friends is not an easy choice for me. Staying in my house with a couple of my close friends is my favorite lifestyle on the weekend. My personal experience is a compelling example. Last Sunday, was a lovely sunny day with a warm temperature. I spent a whole afternoon playing video games with my college roommates. We ordered some drinks and food on the Ubereat app which is super convenient for us. After having dinner, we started to watch Games of Thrones, one of our must-to-watch series every weekend. By doing so, I don't have to go out with a bunch of unfamiliar friends. My roommates know every habit of mine and we are always happy spending time with each other.

Furthermore, if we graduate from college, we need to spend most of our time working. The job will become the most important thing in our life. As a result, having a small number of people is a more effective way to maintain friendships. Take my father as an example. My dad is a police officer, and he often needs to work day and night. Whenever I meet him getting out of work, he looks extremely tired and sleepy. Not only he still has to do house chores but also accompanies me and my mom. However, in such a stressful working environment and intensive family time, he still has a group of best friends. Sometimes they like to go camping accompanying their family, other times they enjoy going mountain climbing. Even though my father doesn't have much time to make new friends, I believe that he enjoys his life a lot. Thus, I agree with the idea that staying with a small number of people is essential to happiness.

In a nutshell, I personally believe that maintaining friendships with a few people over a rather long time is better for me. This is mainly because I prefer to spend time with close friends, and I would be super busy making many new friends.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, so, still, thus, as to, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1921.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 427.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.49882903981 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56633657159 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538641686183 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.6972165112 48.9658058833 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 71.1481481481 100.406767564 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8148148148 20.6045352989 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14814814815 5.45110844103 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283086302691 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0768282251556 0.076458572812 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819555868057 0.0737576698707 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208355867451 0.150856017488 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0701440731373 0.0645574589148 109% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.7 11.7677419355 65% => 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: 8.52 10.9000537634 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.23 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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