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.
Nowadays, due to the advent of technology and the internet, communicating with people all over the globe and making new friends has become way easier and people can easily keep connected with their friends and family members. In this way, a vast number of people believe that it is more important to be capable of engaging with new people rather than sticking to the previously built and long-term relationships. However, I am of the opinion that having stronger friendships with a small group of people can be more fruitful. The reasons to substantiate my viewpoint are elaborated upon hereunder.
To begin with, friendship relies on trust. Evidently, a great friendship can not be maintained in case of trust betrayals and this is what one can not expect from a short-term friendship. Unquestionably, trusting people takes a great deal of time and making new friends, people will just be able to chitchat with each other and talk about some general topics. However, having a group of loyal friends, people can easily talk about even personal events of their lives and get some valuable advice from the ones that really care about them. For instance, I remember in high school, I became friends with a girl wich I started to know for about a week and I easily trusted her at the beginning and told her something about my other friend. After a few days, I found that she revealed my secret and not only spoiled my face among other students but also ruined my relationship with the other girl. Hence, from that time I learned to avoid trusting people whom I know for a short period and instead, try to strengthen my relationship with people who have always been there for me.
Another reason that worths some words here is that long-term friendships contain some valuable lessons about life. To be more specific, when trying to maintain a strong long-term friendship, people learn to be patient, lowering their expectations to encounter serious conflicts, and increase the levels of endurance while facing difficulties. Undoubtedly, good friends are the ones that sometimes avoid their personal benefits to help you achieve your goals during life and do you a favor in order to make you happy and this is because your happiness, results in theirs as well. So, being capable of maintaining stronger and longer relationships with a smaller group of people will be definitely more advantageous than having superficial ones.
To sum it up, I believe that people who are competent to maintain long-term friendships are probably happier because they are less potential to tackle betrayal situations and also they can experience strong feelings and develop intriguing emotions in their friendships.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, really, so, then, well, while, for instance, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2246.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 448.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01339285714 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74837614394 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542410714286 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 672.3 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 20.1344086022 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.5875413377 48.9658058833 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.375 100.406767564 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 20.6045352989 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5625 5.45110844103 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303447018649 0.236089414692 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105407254183 0.076458572812 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560821068739 0.0737576698707 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182058541998 0.150856017488 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0854775153499 0.0645574589148 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 11.7677419355 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 58.1214874552 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 86.8835125448 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.0537634409 131% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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