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

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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.

In sophisticated today's world, having a good friendship has countless merits which makes sense of satisfaction for people. Some people think to preserve old harmony is more important than making new friends. However, others, standing on the other side of the continuum, believe that making new friends provide more happiness for someone. I, personally, concur with the former group, for a couple of reason that I will elaborate on which upon hereunder.

To begin with, when people are friends for a long time, they will be more than an ordinary friend and turn into each other's family member. People who are friends for several years have spent a lot of time with each other, and have many mutual experiences. Therefore, their relationship will strengthen gradually, and as a result, they cannot be apathetic about each other's life. To be more specific, they care about their old friend's problems and try to pave the way for him or her. A personal example can drive this notion home. Last year I lost my job, and I was in a bad financial situation. Since I had to pay an enormous number of bills, I was upset with my life condition. That time I ask financial help from some of my friends. My new friends owing to a lack of trust in our friendship ignored my request, and only my oldest friend helped me in those rainy days. She paid for all the bills and made my tension relieved. Had not had I an old friend, I would have bought my home to pay my debts. Therefore, people can count on their former friends rather than new friends in their difficulties.

Second, people who are friends for years due to a considerable amount of time which they had spent in tandem can help each other intellectual help in a better way. They know each other's characteristics and personalities exactly. Therefore, they have a more reliable and rational recommendation in different situation for each other. To make it clear, when someone wants to choose a career or wants to launch an emotional relationship, he can give useful advice and recommendations from old friends. Because they know he can tolerate the given job or can get along with a particular person. For instance, one of my old friends wanted to get married to another friend. I strongly disagreed with that decision because I knew both of them for years. I told with my friends and tried to prevent him from this marriage while his new friends did not tell him anything. Soon after this marriage, my friend got a divorce, and he was surprised that I knew him even better than himself. So, I think old friends are valuable in people's lives because they can help in making important decisions.
All in all, with two mentioned reasons into account, I do believe that having old friends make more happiness for people. In this situation, old friends do not only help each other in harsh conditions, but they also have a rational recommendation for each other owing to the perfect understanding of personalities.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 118, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
...n an ordinary friend and turn into each others family member. People who are friends f...
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Line 3, column 147, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... into each others family member. People who are friends for several years have spent a ...
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Line 3, column 367, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
...lt, they cannot be apathetic about each others life. To be more specific, they care ab...
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Line 3, column 942, Rule ID: I_A[1]
Message: Did you mean 'am' (first person of "to be")?
Suggestion: am
...made my tension relieved. Had not had I an old friend, I would have bought my home...
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Line 5, column 16, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... their difficulties. Second, people who are friends for years due to a considerable...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, then, therefore, while, for instance, i think, as a result, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 43.0788530466 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2445.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 516.0 407.700716846 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73837209302 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69734792086 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 212.727598566 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494186046512 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 742.5 618.680645161 120% => 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: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.7309447094 48.9658058833 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.3214285714 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4285714286 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.89285714286 5.45110844103 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => 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: 0.254640475603 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0793059194964 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0608382473815 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184166909113 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344181759794 0.0645574589148 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.34 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 86.8835125448 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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