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.
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Yes, I do agree with the former concept of maintaining friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time rather than making new friends easily. I personally, believe this idea due to two concepts - it builds up empathy among the shared ones and it makes people more comfortable to another.
People being in friendship over longer time periods will share more times than the ones who are relatively on newer terms. Due to their familiarity for a great deal of time they become attached to one another in terms of emotional and personal basis. This attachment impacts their relative emotion emphatically. That is to say they become much more aware of the things they shared with each other, develop e sense of responsibility towards one another, they build memories and thereby they create bonds among them. For example - having a friend for over 10 years will definitely make me more comfortable to share my personal belongings and secrets with him compared to the one whom I knew for about one month or so. This is a very normal thing and due to this people having greater amount of time spent with one another have higher sense of empathy and sympathy compared to the fresher ones.
The other perspective is the comfort level of a person with his newly built friendship and his old friendship. It is generally accepted that if a person knows another one for a longer period of time then he supposed to know many things about the former one. This single thing makes the subject person more comfortable to him compared to the other person who knows him for a very less amount time. Its because the subject person will feel some pressure to impress or to maintain a certain level of prestige in front of the lesser known friend which will definitely hurt his comfort zone. Whereas the older friendship does not have such kind of pressure upon each other and this phenomena makes the relationship more comfortable and enjoyable. And as the emotion begets, the lesser the pressure will be the higher the mental relief and comfort will be which will ultimately result in higher happiness.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 73, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...concept of maintaining friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time rathe...
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Line 1, column 110, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...th a small number of people over a long period of time rather than making new friends easily. ...
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Line 2, column 616, Rule ID: PERSONAL_OPINION_FRIENDSHIP[1]
Message: Use simply 'belongings'.
Suggestion: belongings
...ly make me more comfortable to share my personal belongings and secrets with him compared to the on...
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Line 3, column 184, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...a person knows another one for a longer period of time then he supposed to know many things ab...
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Line 3, column 397, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
... knows him for a very less amount time. Its because the subject person will feel so...
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Line 3, column 672, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ch kind of pressure upon each other and this phenomena makes the relationship more c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, then, whereas, for example, kind of, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => 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: 1738.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 365.0 407.700716846 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76164383562 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46346843482 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 212.727598566 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509589041096 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.94265232975 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 36.5913031934 48.9658058833 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.142857143 100.406767564 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0714285714 20.6045352989 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.21428571429 5.45110844103 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.53405017921 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => 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: 0.235470793183 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971156152674 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116134836474 0.0737576698707 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209390736756 0.150856017488 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109303532599 0.0645574589148 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 11.7677419355 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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