Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour
guide. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer
Since the dawn of human beings, traveling has played a significant role in people’s lives. No one can turn
a blind eye to the enormous effects of traveling on our daily lives. There is a heated controversy as to
whether one should travel in a group led by a tour guide or not. Some people may hold this viewpoint
that it is better to have a tour guide in our travels. However, some others may take an opposite point of
view and believe that we may feel excited and adventurous when we travel without a tour guide. I, for
one, firmly believe that traveling with a group led by a tour guide have many merits, which, without any
shadow of doubts, outweigh its demerits. There are quite a few reasons why I subscribe to this idea, three
of which are separately elaborated upon hereunder.
One of the reasons coming to my mind at first is that, nowadays, time is one of the most important as well
as fundamental parts of human’s lifespan. An empirical study in the United States shows that the majority
of tourists who come to the United States, bewildered by numerous touristic places. With this in mind,
there is a Persian proverb, the equivalent of which in English may sound like this, “Time is gold! Do not
waste it!” This saying clarifies the fact that we should be more careful about maintaining our precious as
well as invaluable time which can never be obtained again.
Another equally remarkable point in corroborating my stance is that traveling needs money. Furthermore,
when one goes to another city or country, he or she has no idea about routes by which they can reach
their destination. In other words, there are a variety of ways one can use to arrive at a touristic place. As
a result of which, different routes have different lengths and costs as well. Therefore, a tour guide who is
familiar with routes can take the cheapest way, and in so doing, tourists can save their money and spend
it on other parts of their trip, inasmuch as there are few taxi drivers who want to take the advantages of
tourists’ unfamiliarity with new places and charged them a lot of money.
The last but not the least reason for which I have to elaborate has to do with the fact that every society
has its own unique as well as distinct culture. Notwithstanding one may get information about the culture
of a city he or she wants to visit, this information is not pure and pristine enough, since humankind, from
the beginning of Genesis, has experienced considerable changes in the norms of their societies. For
instance, some acts may be legal in one’s society but not in another society. If a tourist does not know
about the norms of a society he or she wants to travel to and do something unusual, his or her deed may
cause them many problems.
In conclusion, by taking into account all the reasons mentioned above and many other ones, as far as I am
concerned, tourists should not take such groups for granted and do their best to make the most of it.
Therefore, in my opinion, it is much better to travel in a group led by a tour guide.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 100, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...ly lives. There is a heated controversy as to whether one should travel in a group led by a t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, as to, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 52.1666666667 153% => 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: 2569.0 1977.66487455 130% => OK
No of words: 552.0 407.700716846 135% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65398550725 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6357587506 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489130434783 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 804.6 618.680645161 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 13.0 4.94265232975 263% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.4640916256 48.9658058833 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.333333333 100.406767564 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2857142857 20.6045352989 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04761904762 5.45110844103 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 31.0 4.53405017921 684% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129051879603 0.236089414692 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0436336535038 0.076458572812 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396935916804 0.0737576698707 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0346281925504 0.150856017488 23% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396178533817 0.0645574589148 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 11.7677419355 116% => 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: 9.99 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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