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.

No one can cast doub on the fact that making friendships and having friendds is an important factor to in the contemporary era, and also forging friendship can be considered as a basic needs of human beings. Some people are of the opinion that it is more important to keep old friends, others believe that making new ones has more importance. When it comes to me, although making new friends enlarges our circle of friendship, it is more important to maitain old friends. To support this, there are several resons, two of which are going to be aptly explored in the following.
First and foremost, the most prominent reason which comes to my mind is that making new friends is very demanding and it takes times for people to win the trust of their friends and enjoy the companionship of each others. According to the fact that, nowadays, most people have hectic daily schedules and they cannot spend a significant part f their time forging new friendships. Needlesss to say, only with keeping their old friends it iis possible for one to satisfy their basic need of socializing with their friends. For example, last year, I tried to make some new friends to enlarge my friendship, but due to my heavy workload I was not successfull to make good friends as well as my old friends.
Another noteworthy reason that should be taken into account is that, friends are aware about each others personality and as time goes, their emotional bonds get stonger; as a result, they can ubnderstand each other better than new friends they make. It goes without saying that, one can speak about all aspects of his or her life without any limitation and count on her old friends helping hands to overcome hurdles she may encounter in her whole life. So keeping old friends is more important and benefits one in the long run. Take my personal experience as a compelling example; a couple of years ago, I was suffering from financial issue and I needed some money to survive in that economic climate, it was difficult for me to ask my new friends for money, but I asked my old friends for their hepl without any shyness because we kknow each other profoundly. Had I not keeped my old friends, I would not have been able to cope with that tough situation.
In short all the aforementioned reasons lead us to the fact that keeping old friends is more important than making new friends. The fact that forging new friendship is time consuming, coupled with strong bond between old friends, is the reason which strengthens my claim.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 99, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, then, well, for example, in short, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2071.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 442.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68552036199 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5390311183 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509049773756 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 612.0 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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: 29.0 20.1344086022 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.0424135127 48.9658058833 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.066666667 100.406767564 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.4666666667 20.6045352989 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.93333333333 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287243591292 0.236089414692 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126328167393 0.076458572812 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0805954340873 0.0737576698707 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210617791387 0.150856017488 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0281839018761 0.0645574589148 44% => 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: 15.4 11.7677419355 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.96 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.2 10.1575268817 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 10.9000537634 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.0537634409 135% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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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