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.
There is no shortage of opinions about making friends. There is the type of person who would make friends everywhere and there is the type who prefers to maintain a smaller group of friends, like me. It is my firm belief that we should keep a strong friendship with our closest friends rather than making new ones, which I will explain in the subsequent paragraph.
First and foremost, true friends are rare, that is the truth we all have to accept. You will meet countless people in life, but the ones who understand you, the ones that share the same opinion as you, the ones who would help you when you are in trouble, are less than you would have thought. My personal experience is a great example of this. In the first year of high school, I felt very lonely. But it was not because I had no friends, I did, but none of whom really understood me. I really tried to blend in. My high school classmates came from a different place which I am not familiar with. Many of them knew each other for many years. So even though they were very friendly and wanted to make friends with me, I still felt alone. Eventually, I did found two people who share the same interest as me, but most friends I made were not close to me.
Second, the choice for friends is wide. It might seem a little controversial to what I said in the previous paragraph, but it is not. The big lesson I learned for all these years is to not hurry to make friends. In my opinion, one only should focus on their understanders. You can and will encounter people who could become your acquaintance, so do not worry that you are not making friends fast enough. I learned this the hard way. You see, I spent a lot of time, getting used to the new environment and my new classmates. In order to build a strong connection, I played sports with them, played cards with them. In other words, I did a lot of things that I was unwilling to do. I did not realize at that time the ones I should be maintaining friendships with were right beside me. The fact was, I did not need to please everyone. I only need two or three-person, whom I feel comfortable talking to, whom I can rely on and trust by my side.
In light of the reasons I mentioned above, I strongly believe that people should spend more time on a small group of friends than trying to make new friends faster because the former ones should be your focus.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, really, second, so, still, i feel, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 43.0788530466 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => 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: 1938.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 448.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.32589285714 4.8611393121 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38216812339 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511160714286 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.8778030372 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.5384615385 100.406767564 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2307692308 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.07692307692 5.45110844103 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.243614308161 0.236089414692 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0569276181008 0.076458572812 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542833396515 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160730454402 0.150856017488 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0208228142601 0.0645574589148 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.6 11.7677419355 65% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 79.6 58.1214874552 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 10.1575268817 63% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.54 10.9000537634 69% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.45 8.01818996416 80% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 86.8835125448 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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