Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.

Our leisure time is an important part of our lives since it provides a time when we can fresh our minds. One of the best ways to spend this time is traveling to places which you have never been there. Although some people adamantly claim that it would be better to have a tour guide who introduces us new places, other take an opposite point of view. Personally, I am of the belief that traveling with a close companion like the spouse or a close friend is the best way to discover new places. I feel this way for two reasons which I will explore in the following essay.

To begin with, following someone else like a leader on a trip is so boring and it doesn't satisfy me. I prefer to find a new place like a town or a castle by myself. I like making a relationship with indigenous people. For instance, last year, I went to China with a friend. There was a plenty of new places where I could discover them just by speaking to the native people who were living there. For example, when we went to visit the Forbidden City, there was no one to guide me but there was a lot of elementary students who could help me since they could speak English fluently. Besides, it was so exciting for me and my friend to do this by ourselves.

Second, different people have different interests so being in a group and adapting themselves with a group would be so difficult when they have a little time to visit a country, for example. I myself tend to go to natural places early in the morning and see the sunrise, then going to visit museums or castles to add some intellectual aspects to my trip. Eventually, in the evening, I would prefer to go to try new restaurants and bars. Being in a group won't let me do my favorites. As I mentioned before, my trip to China was really wonderful as I could do every thing I was interested in.

All in all, I prefer to travel by myself or with a companion not in a big group since I could follow my interests and as well as I could satisfy my curiosity by discovering new places.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... a leader on a trip is so boring and it doesnt satisfy me. I prefer to find a new plac...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, if, really, second, so, then, well, for example, for instance, i feel, as well as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1634.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 383.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.26631853786 4.8611393121 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47165692084 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498694516971 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 618.680645161 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8648239983 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.7777777778 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2777777778 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11111111111 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166166922018 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0551229808928 0.076458572812 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520711112135 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105338289435 0.150856017488 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406026853353 0.0645574589148 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.49 10.9000537634 69% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.03 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 86.8835125448 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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