Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

Essay topics:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Friends play a very important role in every individual's life. I personally subscribe to the theory that making new friends is a lot more important than keeping old ones. In the following paragraphs, I will illustrate my point of view.

First and foremost, people tend to change throughout time, specially when they're young. As one grows older, not only they change but so do the people they tend to hang out with and the circumstances surrounding their lives. Therefore, it's not a shocking occurrence when people who have been friends for long periods of time, suddenly grow apart and become strangers. I remember three years ago when the college decisions were out, my best friend at the time and I decided to check the results together. So she came over to my house and we logged into our accounts and found out that we got accepted in two different colleges. We both started crying because we had plans to spend our college years together, but life doesn't always give you what you expect it to. After all, my friend moved to another city and we both got so caught up in our own busy schedules that we gradually drifted apart.

Secondly, people need to make new friends in order to find the people who like the same things as they do. People are unique individuals, whom are interested in different things than others; in order to enhance every aspect of his/her life, one has to initiate new relationships and friendships. For instance, I've always been a theatre lover but for many years none of my existing friends even remotely liked spending a night in an audithorium watching a performance; I often went there alone by myself. But one day I met a girl in the audience which was also a theatre fan and we immediately became friends. We started to hangout ever since, we tend to go the theatre at least 4 times every three weeks and afterward we spend some time in a coffee shop discussing the performances and theatre itself. If I hadn't taken the initiation and never made friends with her, not only I probably would have stopped going to the theatre and but also i would have never gotten the opportunity to discuss my ideas about theatre with another person.

It is my firm conviction that making new friends is an essential decision that everyone should make because both us and the circumstances surrounding us tend to change every once in a while and we need to find and hangout with the people whom we enjoy their company and are more like us.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
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Suggestion: they're
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ces surrounding their lives. Therefore, its not a shocking occurrence when people w...
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...nd our college years together, but life doesnt always give you what you expect it to. ...
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Suggestion: I've
...ionships and friendships. For instance, Ive always been a theatre lover but for man...
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Message: The adverb 'always' is usually put after the verb 'been'.
Suggestion: been always
...hips and friendships. For instance, Ive always been a theatre lover but for many years none...
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Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...opped going to the theatre and but also i would have never gotten the opportunity...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, after all, as to, at least, for instance

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2028.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64073226545 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53652631017 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546910755149 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 635.4 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.7254476415 48.9658058833 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.294117647 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7058823529 20.6045352989 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167930671671 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634464745881 0.076458572812 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0745076012113 0.0737576698707 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138512139515 0.150856017488 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0843878156166 0.0645574589148 131% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => 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: 9.93 10.9000537634 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => 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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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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