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.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Despite extended family is still important today, with the development of technology extended family seems to play a less important role than before. Since people now spend more time with people other than their extended family now. Therefore, I agree with the statement that the extended family is less important now than it was in the past, for the following reasons.
First of all, people now do not live with their families. Along with the development of public transportation, people today can spend less time traveling to visit their families. So more and more people decide to settle in a place that has more opportunities for works. For example, I remember in my parents' generation, they used to live with their family members together. Even though they did not live in the same house, they might still live in the same town or village. That way they could take care of each other easily. But today, I only need to spend three hours to travel to my grandparents' house, thus, living together may not be necessary.
Furthermore, with the help of social media, making new friends is not as difficult as before. In this case, the time that we spend with our extended family may be way less than before. I remember when I was a kid, there were no social media, so I played with my cousins most of the time. Yet today, I have made a lot of friends through social media, therefore I almost go out with my friends every week.
Finally, the living pace today is much faster than before, and competition is much more competitive as well. To make sure that we will not be replaced, people arrange more time on self-education. Which means that they do not have as much time with their family as before. For instance, today English is a basic skill for working in a decent company. Therefore, people spend more of their weekend on self-improvement, such as taking online courses or going to cram schools, which make them has less time hanging out with family member that they are not familiar with.
In conclusion, people today have more different types of activity or friends that they can spend time with. Hence, they may shorten the time they spend on family members besides their parents and siblings.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, if, may, so, still, therefore, thus, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1827.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 386.0 407.700716846 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73316062176 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48117966235 2.67179642975 93% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.463730569948 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 570.6 618.680645161 92% => 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: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.0454544766 48.9658058833 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.0 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.380952381 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 5.45110844103 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21056958318 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0795525728804 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103246242415 0.0737576698707 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139624964558 0.150856017488 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128253563335 0.0645574589148 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 11.7677419355 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.78 8.01818996416 85% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 86.8835125448 63% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 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.