A glance at people's attitude towards methods to relax and reduce stress brings to a light question that has been asked several times, namely, whether choosing to spend time alone or with friends. Were I forced to choose, I would prefer the latter point of view to the former one and I will elaborate on my reasons in the following paragraphs.
The first reason worth mentioning is that friends have the ability to analyze where the stress origin from and how to solve it. To illustrate more, we do have different friends of different backgrounds, and the ways they demonstrate things are quite different from us. When we are confused by a complicated problem, by sharing our confusion and stress with friends, more often than not, they can find out where the problem exists from a witness's view and provide distinct suggestions for us. According to their sincere advice, there must be one that is suitable for us to relax and reduce stress.
Another significant reason I suggest staying with friends is that taking part in many social activities with friends is an essential way to relax. There are numerous ways for us to choose to have fun with friends when we are upset or under stress. Taking my personal experience as a compelling example, when I was in my senior year, I was undergoing a tough time facing the difficulties of getting a higher TOEFL grade and applying a graduate school. The heavy stress ruined my mind and made me cannot concentrate on studying. Seeing my situation getting worse and worse, my friends invited me to join them in playing basketball every night, and they continuously gave the ball to me to help me build confidence again. Surrounded by the laugh and care from my friends, I have filled up with energy again.
A voice arises that spending time alone is also an effective way to truly relax and reduce stress. Admittedly, self-thinking can help people better recognize themselves and lift their spirit into a higher magnitude, nevertheless, this method is not suitable for everyone. If a depressed man insists on staying alone, he may gradually suspect himself, which can form a vicious cycle to constantly destroy his mental health. In the contrast, staying with friends can effectively avoid this problem for not only they can provide care but also find psychological help immediately when the situation gets worse.
In conclusion, drawing upon the reasons I have mentioned above, I totally disagree with the opinion that the best way to truly relax or reduce stress is to spend time alone. While there are one hundred Hamlets in one hundred people's eyes, I strongly believe my opponents will yield after being shown to my article.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, nevertheless, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 43.0788530466 118% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2220.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 455.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87912087912 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6153716871 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553846153846 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 685.8 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 41.8213794342 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.333333333 100.406767564 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2777777778 20.6045352989 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61111111111 5.45110844103 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
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: 0.224333396798 0.236089414692 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0808340088051 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0992357755594 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137758113426 0.150856017488 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0475539158956 0.0645574589148 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 11.7677419355 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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