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

Friendship is one of the crucial aspects of every person's life, and having good friends makes life much happier and more fun. While some believe that it is critical for people to make new friends easily, others believe otherwise. As far as I am concerned, I totally believe that it is far more important to keep friendships for a long time with some close friends, rather than making new friends. The reasons why I believe so will be elaborated upon hereunder.

First of all, long-time friends have a better understanding of each other and have a great time together. I mean, since they know each other for a while, they perfectly know one another. They are aware of each other's feelings and get along much better. On the other hand, new friends know a little about each other, and they might hurt each other's fealing and even annoy one another. My own experience illustrates this reality. A few years ago, I decided to go on a vacation with some of my old friends. We know each other for fifteen years, and try to avoid upsetting each other. On that trip, we went to the beach for a couple of days. We knew one of our friends did not have a good financial situation, so we tried to spend as little money as we can. We did not want to embarrass him. We just hung out in the beach house and talked and played card games together. It was so much fun that it is one of our best memories.

Second, people can rely on their old friends in difficult situations. When people know each other for a long time, great connection bonds between them. They care so much about each other and try to help each other in the time of need. In contrast, new friends do not care about each other so much. For instance, a few years ago, I had a big problem. I wrote a bad check, and I did not have any money. The guy who had my check wanted to put me in jail. I had no idea what to do. I talked with my best friend about it; we were friends for 20 years. He got upset that why I did not tell him in the first place. Fortunately, he lent me the money, and I passed that check. If I had not such a friend, no one else would give me the money, and I would end up in prison.

In conclusion, with all this taken into account, I strongly believe that maintaining friendships with a small group of people is more important than making new friends every day. We have a much better time with them and can rely on them in bad circumstances.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 51, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
... is one of the crucial aspects of every persons life, and having good friends makes lif...
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Line 3, column 789, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... can. We did not want to embarrass him. We just hung out in the beach house and ta...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, so, while, for instance, i mean, in conclusion, in contrast, first of all, in the first place, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 1977.66487455 99% => OK
No of words: 462.0 407.700716846 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.23376623377 4.8611393121 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30848798365 2.67179642975 86% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47619047619 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 598.5 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 22.0 9.59856630824 229% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6003584229 146% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8906864364 48.9658058833 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 65.2 100.406767564 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36666666667 5.45110844103 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => 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: 0.193732382132 0.236089414692 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0527746565719 0.076458572812 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682102755198 0.0737576698707 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167500569188 0.150856017488 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0857699013993 0.0645574589148 133% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 6.2 11.7677419355 53% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 81.63 58.1214874552 140% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 5.6 10.1575268817 55% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 6.96 10.9000537634 64% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.57 8.01818996416 82% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 86.8835125448 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => 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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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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