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
It is debatable whether the ability to maintain friendship with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than then the ability to make many new friends easily. While some people think that the ability to maintain old friends is important, however, I contend that the capability of making many new friend is actually a crucial skill in our lives for the following reasons.
Firstly, the ability to make many new friends helps us become flexible because we require to learn how to get along with habits that every friends have no matter they are good or bad. In the 21st century, team work and interdisciplinary collaborations become the mainstream style of work life especially for the tertiary sector. If we can make many new friends, then we acquire the capability to understand different habits and we are more flexible to resolve interpersonal conflict and disagreements in a positive way. By contrast, if we don't have flexibility, then we could be frustrated and angry very often only when seeing any behaviors that we don't expect. To put it differently, the capacity to make many new friends can improve our interpersonal skills and mental well-being.
Secondly, socializing is the key to problem solving in that different friends can provide varying skills for a range of situations. All human beings are limited for no one familiar with every fields. The benefits of making many friend show when we meet some troubles that we can't handle. To be specific, if we have many different friends who have various specialties and experiences, then they can help us to deal with whatever situations we meet. For example, some friends good at marketing can solve business puzzles, and others excelling in medicine help with health issues. In other words, the ability to make as many as possible friends benefit us to increase the possibility to achieve success which is the stem of happiness.
Lastly, it is conducive to our horizons that making new friends. Everyone is just like a book who is full of different story. Our time is limited but we can broaden our horizons by making new friends. For example, hardly can we go to every country in the world, but if we have a lot of friends, then we can learn different cultures and traditions all around the earth. This helps to develop new interests and accordingly we can become happy since making many friends enrich our lives.
Admittedly, there are some advantages that maintaining friendship with a small group of people over a long period of time such as reminding our memories in childhood. However, it is secondary. With the reasons I mentioned above, I believe that the ability to make many new friends is more important for happiness.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...the ability to maintain friendship with a small number of people over a long period of time is mo...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...th a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than th...
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Message: Did you mean 'learning'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: learning
...s us become flexible because we require to learn how to get along with habits that every...
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...nterpersonal conflict and disagreements in a positive way. By contrast, if we dont have flexibili...
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Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Suggestion: many
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... limited but we can broaden our horizons by making new friends. For example, hard...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ith a small group of people over a long period of time such as reminding our memories in child...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, for example, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 8.0752688172 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2283.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 465.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90967741935 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74440116841 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468817204301 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 719.1 618.680645161 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.790490764 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.714285714 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1428571429 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.7619047619 5.45110844103 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.5376344086 181% => 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: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.360780867421 0.236089414692 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12824839755 0.076458572812 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.153089026625 0.0737576698707 208% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.287646327218 0.150856017488 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.195379563555 0.0645574589148 303% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 10.9000537634 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.002688172 190% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => 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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