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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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 are the integral part of our life. Although some people believe that keeping old frineds is more important than making new one, nonetheless, I believe that friendship knows no boundary and I love to make new friends. I firnly believe this way owing to several to reasons, and I will elaborate on these in the subsequent paragraphs.

To begin with, new friends mean new compainion to me. You can not always expect your old friends with you wherever you go. If you are leaving your country for educational purpose, you need to make new friends. Otherwise, you might feel loanly for the entire years you spent there. Moreover, you will have no one to console you in your bad time. I have to admit that my opinion on this matter is profoundly influenced by my own personal experience. You see, four years back, I left my country to pursue master's degree from State University in USA. I had no old friend of mine with me but I managed to make new friends in class. Eventually, they became so good friend of mine, we shared the same dormitory together. Morever, we used to have group discussions on every topic professors teach everyday. As a result, group work helped us to make our concepts crystal clear and shape our future in a god way. For this reason, If I had never made new friends, I would have never realized the importance of true friendship.

Secondly, new friends brings new opportunity and different cultures and aspects. At different moment of our life, we meet some friends of different religion and morever friends from a different country too. This brings the cultural diversity as we get to know their lifestyle and thought process. This helped me to improve my interpersonal skills too. Drawin g from my own experience, I remember when I joined my first company in 2016, I met people from Germany . Although intially I faced issue while communicating due to language barrier, bit eventually I started learning their language and spent more time with them. I get to know the history of their country. Moreover, I started watching movies in german, and I used to ask the meaning some words in case I couldn't get the meaning well. As a result, eventually I learned german and I think the credit goes to Johm from team. Therefore, it's certainly clear that making new friends always comes with added advantage.

In the light of the above mentioned reasons, I would always prefer to make new friends while keeping the old one. This is because making new friends makes you more open minded and flexible to adopt any culture and shapes your personality.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 164, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing new one, nonetheless, I believe that friendship knows no boundary and I love ...
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Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ussions on every topic professors teach everyday. As a result, group work helped us to m...
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Suggestion:
...I joined my first company in 2016, I met people from Germany . Although intially ...
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Suggestion: .
...pany in 2016, I met people from Germany . Although intially I faced issue while c...
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Suggestion: couldn't
...to ask the meaning some words in case I couldnt get the meaning well. As a result, even...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, moreover, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, i think, as a result, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 15.1003584229 33% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 74.0 43.0788530466 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => 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: 2134.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 449.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75278396437 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57513657794 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536748329621 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 24.0 9.59856630824 250% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.0038577922 48.9658058833 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.037037037 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6296296296 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44444444444 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.341552681214 0.236089414692 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921065032188 0.076458572812 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0898852858862 0.0737576698707 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224330740246 0.150856017488 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0781723934643 0.0645574589148 121% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.97 10.9000537634 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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