Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Computer games are enjoyable. Yet, parents are faced with a puzzling choice of either leaving their children to participate in these games or not. The prompt suggests that we do not belabour this choice for too long; stating that parent should not permit their children to play computer games as the games are a waste of time. In my view, I completely disagree with the prompt and argue that children should be permitted to play computer games as these games aid learning and help in relaxation.
First, kids should be allowed to play computer games because computer games help their learning. A lot of these games were developed by great intellectuals for specific needs. We have computer games that help in building numeracy skill, we also have computer games that help in developing literacy skill. A child who is allowed to play computer games will absorb these essential skills while playing. For example, Chinka Nwugo a professor of mathematics from Nigeria developed the Math20 game to help children in college improve their quantitative reasoning ability. The game which tests basic mathematics operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, was accepted in all colleges in Lagos, Nigeria. Since its acceptance, Lagos has been recording improvements in the performance of students in mathematics during promotion exams. Therefore, computer games are necessary for children to improve their performance.
Furthermore, playing computer games serves a child quality relaxation. Everyone needs to exercise but not everyone has the facilities to do so. Some relaxation exercise like swimming, require a large amount of space. Some require the participation of others e.g. playing football. However, playing computer games as a relaxation exercise requires little space and can be done alone. This is very advantageous for parents who want privacy for their children and would not want them to mingle with other kids due to bad influence. For example, a child who has been in school for over 8hours solving abstruse equations can get quality relaxation by picking a computer game after returning home. He would not need the presence of other children yet the goal of resting the muscles will still be reached. Hence, parents should encourage their children to play computer games.
On the other hand, some might argue that spending too much time on computer games might be harmful to children. This is however less probable to occur as the time spent on computer games can be limited. Computer games come with a timer function that restricts the availability of the games to certain times. For example, the PES game comes with a menu that allows the parent to schedule the games. Hence, a child would not be allowed to play the game outside of the specified times. Also, the PES game has a menu that restricts the number of rounds allowed to play in a day and parents can always adjust this number to suit their requirements. A parent who sets the number of rounds to three means that after three rounds of the game, the system should be locked and the child will have no other option than to drop the game and face something else.
In conclusion, parents should not deny their children of computer games as these games are advantageous to the all-round development of the child. Computer games promote children academic performance and keep them relaxed. How I wish the science world can develop more games, improve on the existing ones, and then make them cheaply available to every child.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 558, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'playing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: playing
... restricts the number of rounds allowed to play in a day and parents can always adjust ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, e.g., first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, still, then, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 52.1666666667 140% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.0752688172 211% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2948.0 1977.66487455 149% => OK
No of words: 580.0 407.700716846 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08275862069 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6202903507 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 212.727598566 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455172413793 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 919.8 618.680645161 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 10.0 3.08781362007 324% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6003584229 150% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5861835289 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0967741935 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7096774194 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8064516129 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 23.0 11.8709677419 194% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333882316652 0.236089414692 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11207852999 0.076458572812 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0717943073864 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219157329016 0.150856017488 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0525753373412 0.0645574589148 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 86.8835125448 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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