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.
People have different perspectives of making friends, some of them prefer maintain friendships with familiar friends, while others rather make new friends. In my opinion, I prefer maintaining friendships with a small number of friends based on three following reasons.
First of all, handing out with familiar friends make people feel relax. and people might feel nervous while meeting new friends. For examples, I maintain my friendships with high school classmates by inviting them to dinner once per year. Since we understand each other very much, we share our common memory together, such as the prom night, Christmas party and the soccer game we had joined together in our high school period. Maintaining friendships with familiar friends make me feel extremely relax because I don't need to search for conversation topics.
Furthermore, the old friends are more willing to help than new friends. For instance, once I had a financial crisis, and I had no money left for a whole semester. My old friends John lent me his pocket money to help me get through my difficulty. Conversely, my new friends Anne walked away from me because she though I had a immoral personality. The longer friendship can improve the trust between each other, and they are more willing to support each other while they have some difficulties.
On the other hand, some people may argue that meeting new friends enable them to be inspire by exchanging new ideas and new information with new friends. Admittedly, new friends can bring new concept which can stimulate us to explore new domain. However, I believe that it depends on the characteristics of your friends. To be specific, maybe your friends are journalists, and they also have news to share about. Or perhaps your friends are open-minded, and they learn something new from online courses. Making new friends is not directly lead to explore new knowledge.
To sum up, I strongly agree with the statement, the ability to maintain friendships with a small groups of people is more important for happiness rather than keep making new friends. There is a Chinese old saying states that old friend is like a cup of tea, the longer you taste it, the better it would taste. And I do enjoy maintain the forever friendships with my friends.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 210, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
..., I prefer maintaining friendships with a small number of friends based on three following reason...
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Line 3, column 73, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
...amiliar friends make people feel relax. and people might feel nervous while meeting...
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Line 3, column 514, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... make me feel extremely relax because I dont need to search for conversation topics....
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Line 5, column 324, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d away from me because she though I had a immoral personality. The longer friends...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, for example, for instance, such as, first of all, in my opinion, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => 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: 1900.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 381.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98687664042 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68066006272 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524934383202 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2190250733 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.4761904762 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1428571429 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.61904761905 5.45110844103 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335328478387 0.236089414692 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108175687249 0.076458572812 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10116223419 0.0737576698707 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208997650499 0.150856017488 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102071781706 0.0645574589148 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 11.7677419355 94% => 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: 11.37 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.