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

There has been a constant drumbeat on what kind of friend is more valuable, old friends or new friends? Some people contend that friends known for a long time are more worth keeping compared to new friends, while others hold the opposite attitude. From my perspective, they are equally advantageous to us and I will elaborate on this viewpoint in the following paragraphs.

On the one hand, old friends are always the last resort of my life. Due to the close relationship between me and my old friends, I can express my emotion to them without much worry and consideration as I believe them. Because old friends understand my character and interests, they always provide me with most helpful advice and most comforting communication when I am in depression. During the course of my life, every time I feel nervous or depressed, I would call to my friends Terry without hesitation, who has been friend of me for almost twelve years. After conversation with him, every unpleasant feeling clinging to my heart would disappear in no time. That is the incredible power deriving from old friends.

On the other hand, new friendships might be beneficial to our future. As our careers and life keep going forward, unavoidable we will engage entire new people with different cultural backgrounds. Knowing these new friends help us to broaden our horizons and build relationships to recourse might bring positive impact to our future. For instance, after graduating from college, my brother started to work in the financial industry. Despite not sharing the same interest in personal habits and deeper connection with his colleagues, these new friendships help him to have proper preparation for the challenge of the company and give professional advice when it comes to problems. In other words, new friends can be helpful when we are in trouble.

From what has been discussed above, we can safely draw a conclusion that both old and new friendships are worth keeping.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 385, Rule ID: DURING_THE_COURSE_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'During'.
Suggestion: During
... communication when I am in depression. During the course of my life, every time I feel nervous or d...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, while, for instance, i feel, kind of, sort of, in other words, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1642.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 327.0 407.700716846 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02140672783 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80177070889 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.577981651376 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4324766774 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.625 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4375 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192949462283 0.236089414692 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712211566129 0.076458572812 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602647156022 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123217724803 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653160198721 0.0645574589148 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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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