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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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 critically important for modern human beings to improve their social skills and network to build a prosperous life for themselves and their family. In this line of thought, some people believe that the ability to create friendships with a limited number of people for an elongated period of time is more essential to keep people satisfied with their lives than the ability to make friends easily, while others think otherwise. I, personally, concur with the former group for 2 primary reasons, on which I will elaborate in the following paragraphs.
First, old friends, even a handful of them are beneficial to stay healthy mentally. To be more specific, in front of old friends, who are mostly close and intimate friends, individuals do not need to censor themselves. So, they could perform in any way they want without stress. Besides, there is a plethora of fun and positive memories that each person has created with her/his sincere friends. If people recall those memories and keep them in mind, they always will be cheered up and recognize that their existence is valuable for a group of people. Accordingly, their mental health and intellectual abilities would be ensured with old friends.
Second, having some friends with a long history behind them comes in handy in the troubles and dilemmas of life. Indeed, in today's chaotic life, having some people, whom human beings can totally trust and rely on, is necessary. To elucidate this matter, old friends are people, who listen to you in your difficulties and implement anything they afford without any expectations. On the other hand, new friends may not be willing to dedicate their time or efforts to support their friends in crisis. I take myself as an example to illustrate this. When I was a university student, I lived in a dormitory. In the middle of the semester, I became so sick that the dormitory manager transferred me to the hospital. As I was far away from my hometown, Rafsanjan, it took at least 2 days for my parents to come to Tehran and take care of me. In those two days when I had been hospitalized, my old friend, Sarah, who lived in Tehran, took a leave from her work and looked after me. Despite my inconvenient situation, I was so happy about having such a friendship. When I compare her with my roommate, who was reluctant to even visit me at the hospital to avoid getting ill, I realized profoundly that old friends are the most precious people in one's life that bring joy and hope along with themselves.
To wrap up, old but close friends even a small number of them are advantageous for entering satisfaction in individuals' lives. Not only do they conserve and improve their friends' mental health but they also are reliable people, on whom individuals can count in their lives' problems.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 288, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...mited number of people for an elongated period of time is more essential to keep people satisf...
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Line 2, column 456, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[7]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually put between 'will' and 'be'.
Suggestion: will always be
...se memories and keep them in mind, they always will be cheered up and recognize that their exi...
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Line 3, column 1237, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...friends are the most precious people in ones life that bring joy and hope along with...
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Line 4, column 40, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
... To wrap up, old but close friends even a small number of them are advantageous for entering sati...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, but, first, if, look, may, second, so, while, at least, on the other hand

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 : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 43.0788530466 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 52.1666666667 134% => 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: 2307.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 480.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80625 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64407668063 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 212.727598566 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545833333333 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 714.6 618.680645161 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.94265232975 243% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2271144867 48.9658058833 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.863636364 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8181818182 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 5.45110844103 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224454764445 0.236089414692 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0576154186285 0.076458572812 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712965641973 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144522171786 0.150856017488 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0929781166139 0.0645574589148 144% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => 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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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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