Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.
It is suggested that the extended family has lost its significance. Although it is true that we pay less attention to our distant relatives now than before, it does not mean that grandparents have lost their importance. We still need their support to acquire fundamental cultural traits or ask for advice on solving a difficult situation in life.
To start with, needless to say, that we meet our extended family less nowadays. Even 30 years ago, many families tended to live together or at least have dinners on a weekly basis. However, in the twenty-first century, it has become a rare occurrence and even monthly get-togethers are no longer common. As for my family, we hardly meet more than several times per year. Thus, our habits have certainly changed, but this does not necessarily mean that our relatives have become less significant.
Provided the extended family members meet rarely, grandparents or uncles can give useful advice through the internet. It is not necessary to have an actual feast to communicate with your family members nowadays. As for my relatives, we always keep in touch and help each other if needed. For example, I have recently had to get a specific book for my school project, but it was not for sale in any shop, so I decided to call my grandparents to check whether they had one. Of course, they did, so I could come to pick it up and complete my research. Taking this into account, we can challenge the idea that the extended family is of less importance now than before.
By the same token, extended family members, especially older ones, are those who preserve the culture. Unfortunately, young generations are usually less concerned about saving books, films, historical documents, and other sources that add to the national treasure. Despite its necessity for our development, we do not pay enough attention to it, so this burden falls on our grandparents and, probably, on aunts and uncles. If you come to their place, you can always find a lot of valuable resources, so their contribution to the culture is inestimable, and it is impossible to claim that they are less important now than before.
To sum up, it is true that we pay less immediate attention to our extended family members nowadays, but it does not mean that they have lost their value. Everybody must acknowledge their life experience and the ability to give valuable advice, their enormous collections of pieces of cultural treasure that are impossible to find anywhere else now. Based on the above, I must disagree with the given statement.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 38, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'rarely' is usually put before the verb 'meet'.
Suggestion: rarely meet
.... Provided the extended family members meet rarely, grandparents or uncles can give useful...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, so, still, thus, as for, at least, for example, of course, it is true, to start with, to sum up, by the same token
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 43.0788530466 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2124.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 434.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89400921659 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73430763338 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539170506912 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6272139024 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.142857143 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61904761905 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246409079869 0.236089414692 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0736395632258 0.076458572812 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626513385094 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136194074929 0.150856017488 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340663654574 0.0645574589148 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.