Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to have lots of friends than to have just a few friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
No one can deny that true friends are undeniably valuable. If I were forced to choose, I would definitely agree that having just a small number of friends than having numerous friends for a number of reasons, and I will develop these ideas in subsequent paragraphs.
First, having a large number of friends can be distracting. For example, my roommate in the university has a clique of friends and they are about seven in number. They enjoy doing things together, including moving about together. They could seat for hours discussing and cracking jokes. I find this very distracting as my roommate most times hardly have time for her studies and this contributed to her having an extra year in the university. A lot of friends are certainly a distraction because you will want to please everybody by doing what everybody wants despite the inconvenience on your part. Therefore, having one or two friends is better.
Secondly, it is easier to confide in one or two friends and you are sure your secrets are safe than confiding in a lot of friends. I personally experienced this with my roommate, who confided to her clique of friends about her past life but unknown to her, some of those friends shared her story with other people, and this made people look at her in a certain way. Keeping secrets is a lot hard with certain people, so the chances of having a leaked secret are higher when revealed to a lot of people than to just a few persons.
Finally, one can easily be influenced into doing wrong things with a lot of friends than with just a few friends. I remember when I was in junior high school, I had a lot of friends who almost convinced me into smoking and drink alcohol. They told me it was normal and that I should try it out. I informed my mum about it and she warned me to stay away from such friends. After then, I withdrew myself from the clique and I later became friends with just two people who have rather influenced me positively as we usually study and attend academic seminars together.
In light of the above-mentioned reasons, I strongly believe, and without any modicum of equivocation that having a few friends is better than having numerous friends.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...would definitely agree that having just a small number of friends than having numerous friends fo...
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Line 2, column 15, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...n subsequent paragraphs. First, having a large number of friends can be distracting. For example...
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Line 2, column 146, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: seven
... a clique of friends and they are about seven in number. They enjoy doing things together, incl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1799.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 388.0 407.700716846 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.63659793814 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59769650938 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.512886597938 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 558.0 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => 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: 57.0705919816 48.9658058833 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9444444444 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5555555556 20.6045352989 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.45110844103 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.371938688951 0.236089414692 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120973267447 0.076458572812 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0866944400176 0.0737576698707 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22456122376 0.150856017488 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0176910023974 0.0645574589148 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 11.7677419355 95% => OK
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: 9.63 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 86.8835125448 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 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.