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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Humans are social animals and need to satisfy the desire of being socially connected to other individuals to maintain happiness. While some might claim that this could be achieved by making many new friends, I believe maintaining friendships with a small number of people for a long time is much more apropos in achiveing happiness, which makes it a more important ability. The reason to why I believe in such way will be elaborated in more detail below.
First of all, maintaining a large number of friends is quite cumbersome and can cause severe pressure to an individual. Making a new friend is actually quite easy. One can simply go to a bar, grab a drink, and sit next to someone who is alone and ask them how their day is going. However, staying as a friend requires time, money, and emotional effort. Because all humans have the desire to be loved and cherished, one needs to show an effort of spending enough time with their friends, which also indicates spending money by going to a cafe or a restaurant, and having deep heart to heart conversation. If all three are not achieved, then the so called friend would easily cut off the relationship. While maintaining just one relationship with a single friend requires all the effort mentioned above, how much more work would it be to have multiple friends? As such, having the ability to make multiple new friends would cause a lot of pressure to an individual.
Furthermore, no matter how a few friends an individual have, having at least one person who can always show love and affection helps an individual go through any obstacles he/she faces. I would like to mention an example of my own to advocate the reason. When I was in my last year of high school and was preparing for a national test, which is the only way for people to attend a university, I was under severe stress. I did not sleep nor eat for days due to nervousness and anxiety that I would receive low grades in the test. However, whenever I would fall into depression, my friend would hug me with warmth, and say that she loves me no matter how I perform in the test and that she believes I would do my best. This gave me courage to stand up and we both studied hard together until the test day. With the love and emotional support my friend had given me, I was able to receive a high score and was able to attend a prestigious university.
To sum up, maintaining a large number of friends with the ability to make multiple friends easily would lead people to have severe pressure and stress. However, maintaining only a friend who can always love and give affection would enable one to surpass any obstacles. Due to such reasons, I believe that having the ability to maintain frienship, even though there are only a few, for a long period of time is much more important in achieving happiness.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 248, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
... I believe maintaining friendships with a small number of people for a long time is much more apr...
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Line 2, column 27, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...etail below. First of all, maintaining a large number of friends is quite cumbersome and can cau...
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Line 4, column 24, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...us university. To sum up, maintaining a large number of friends with the ability to make multip...
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Line 4, column 393, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...though there are only a few, for a long period of time is much more important in achieving hap...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, while, at least, first of all, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => 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: 2319.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 508.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.56496062992 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56473854043 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490157480315 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 735.3 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9164550669 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.428571429 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1904761905 20.6045352989 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 5.45110844103 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
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: 0.255063356679 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0813147778337 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0813329178906 0.0737576698707 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184857002896 0.150856017488 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0796849966915 0.0645574589148 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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