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

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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.

While old friends may have created more memories and stronger bonds with us, new friends may be able to help us to have wider vision to the world that we live. Therefore, I do not agree with the statement that keeping old friends is more important. Instead, I believe that keeping old friends and making new friends are both equally important.

Losing our old friends may be one of the painful thing in our life. Since we usually have created a lot of memories with them, and offered a great deal of support when we feel hopeless in our teenage time. Take myself for example, I have a friend who's name is Ian, and we have know each other for almost ten years, since we were in high school. When we were in high school, we often did stupid things together. Thus, every time we were being punished, we knew that we were not alone and punishment became less scary to us. Now we are grown up, we still hang out sometimes, and now we are giving life advices to each other. I believe many of people have a relationship like me and Ian, and losing this kind of friend could bring considerable of grief for us. Therefore, keeping our old friend is one of the important thing that we care in our social life.

However, though keeping old friends is important, making new friends could help us to have wider vision to this world. Because different people may have different background, the way that we understand this world may be really different as well. And having new friend could help us avoiding the blind spot while we are thinking. For example, me as a person who has careful and thorough personality, I may not be willing to take the risk. Nevertheless, making new friends who have completely opposed personality may help me to think in the way that I have never thought of before, though we may fight sometimes. Hence, making new friends could bring us considerable benefit as well.

In conclusion, despite old friend may have heavier weight on the friendship scale, we should not give up on making new friends. Since new friends could help us understanding the world in a more comprehensive way.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 248, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: who's
...ake myself for example, I have a friend whos name is Ian, and we have know each othe...
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Line 3, column 278, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'known'.
Suggestion: known
... a friend whos name is Ian, and we have know each other for almost ten years, since ...
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Line 5, column 283, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to avoid' or 'avoid'.
Suggestion: to avoid; avoid
...ll. And having new friend could help us avoiding the blind spot while we are thinking. F...
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Line 7, column 129, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ould not give up on making new friends. Since new friends could help us understanding...
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Line 7, column 161, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to understand' or 'understand'.
Suggestion: to understand; understand
...riends. Since new friends could help us understanding the world in a more comprehensive way.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, really, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 52.1666666667 77% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1729.0 1977.66487455 87% => OK
No of words: 377.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.58620689655 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45335005008 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 212.727598566 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461538461538 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.9 618.680645161 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.8479990467 48.9658058833 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.0 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8421052632 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47368421053 5.45110844103 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
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: 0.210965192762 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103065906707 0.076458572812 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101511443326 0.0737576698707 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186230750615 0.150856017488 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100562093985 0.0645574589148 156% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.34 10.9000537634 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.71 8.01818996416 84% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 86.8835125448 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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