Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is better to make friends with intelligent people than with people who have a good sense of humor.
In this modern day and age and all its social complexities, it is critical for individuals to choose their circle of friends wisely so that they can make the most out of their life. The importance in this regard often leads to serious controversies such as whether befriending intelligent people serves us the best or people with a good sense of humor. Although there is no definite answer to this question since it is after all a matter of preference, I utterly subscribe to this idea that perhaps a combination of both works the best. To discuss this, there are several perspectives, two of dominant which, are discussed in detail in the following.
First and foremost, spending time with intelligent people can make you a smart person over time, and who doesn’t consider intelligence a value? It comes naturally for friends to spend most of their time together putting the family aside. During these times, people chat, exchange ideas, and sometimes make meaningful discussions and learn. As a consequence, it is very likely for them to become more and more similar to each other. When individuals choose their friends out of intelligent people, they automatically having their thinking patterns changed and eventually become smart people just like them. As a famous proverb states: “If you hang out with a group of five wisemen, the sixth will be you.” This paints a vivid portrait of the importance of spending time with smart people so that you’ll be able to harness your potential intelligence and channel your innate thinking capabilities to the surface.
Furthermore, spending time with people with a sense of humor can help you to unwind your stress and give your mind a sense of relief. Laughing is associated with peace of mind. To put it differently, the more you laugh, the less you suffer from worrying about daily stuff. Laughing can serve individuals as a great escapist to avoid the dire consequences of living your life in a fast lane. Recent research conducted at the Sharif University of Technology yielded several statistics one of which suggests that people who laugh more are not only expected to live thirty-five percent longer than those who barely does, but also are less at risk of being diagnosed with mental health disorders such as depression and generalized anxiety. The outcomes of this research clearly demonstrate that befriending with funny individuals with a sense of humor can lead you towards living a more fulfilling and desirable life.
To wrap it up, contemplating what was discussed above, I am of the strong conviction that having friends from both groups of intelligent people and people with sense of a humor is the perfect recipe for an enjoyable life. This is because hanging out with intelligent people can make you intelligent as well and because joking around with funny people can improve your mental health and longevity.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, so, well, after all, such as
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 : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2414.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 480.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02916666667 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73785195607 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 212.727598566 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527083333333 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 746.1 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.5255057786 48.9658058833 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.111111111 100.406767564 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 20.6045352989 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.45110844103 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.413826134592 0.236089414692 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134808654731 0.076458572812 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112289279084 0.0737576698707 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273377043601 0.150856017488 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0856379151928 0.0645574589148 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 11.7677419355 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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