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 an important part of an individual's life, some are even considered to be family. While some people are of the opinion that only old friends should be maintained, others think that it is beneficial to make new friends also. I completely disagree that one should not make new friends. I feel this way for two reasons which I will examine in this essay.

First of all, friendship is a pure relation and increasing your social circle helps you to enhance your social life. Evidently, one who has a good number of friends has more people to share their happiness as well as sorrows. In fact, it is natural human behaviour to interact with people and understand them. So, making new friends is like a natural instinct in human behaviour. For instance, if you join a new college/school you are not familiar with the new faces. Clearly, if you don't interact with new people they might think of you as you are arrogant and rude. In my case, at first, I only had three friends when I joined college. As time passed, I made a lot of new friends which helped me increase my communication skills and helped me in personality development.

Second, if one has a limited number of friends then it is possible that if you want to share something or you are in an emergency then they may not be available at that moment. Obviously, if your friend circle is bigger one can come in handy at a critical time if another is not available. This is best demonstrated by my personal example. Once I met with an accident on my bike. Though the people around at that time helped me stabilize but as it was a major accident they rushed me to the hospital. At that time my family was out of town so I had to contact few friends. As I called some of them either were not answering or some were not available at the moment. Since I had a good amount of friends some of them came to take care of me. I am sure that if I had not had a large friend circle it would have been difficult for me to face this critical situation.

In conclusion, I am of the opinion that one should make more good and trustworthy friends. This is because increasing your friends helps you develop as a better person and because more friends can prove helpful to you in the time of need.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 37, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
Friends are an important part of an individuals life, some are even considered to be fa...
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Line 1, column 230, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...at it is beneficial to make new friends also. I completely disagree that one should ...
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Line 3, column 485, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...iar with the new faces. Clearly, if you dont interact with new people they might thi...
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Line 5, column 341, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Once” 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.
...st demonstrated by my personal example. Once I met with an accident on my bike. Thou...
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Line 5, column 529, Rule ID: OUT_OF_PLACE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'out-of-town'?
Suggestion: out-of-town
...he hospital. At that time my family was out of town so I had to contact few friends. As I c...
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Line 5, column 667, 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.
... some were not available at the moment. Since I had a good amount of friends some of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, then, well, while, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, in fact, as well as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 43.0788530466 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1833.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.38516746411 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53014720519 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461722488038 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 588.6 618.680645161 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.0225334077 48.9658058833 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.6956521739 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1739130435 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5652173913 5.45110844103 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
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: 0.277023053982 0.236089414692 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080274866213 0.076458572812 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562130872821 0.0737576698707 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187796108217 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0513586770081 0.0645574589148 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 11.7677419355 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.89 10.9000537634 72% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.91 8.01818996416 86% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 86.8835125448 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => 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: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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