Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The statement is making us to choose between the ability to maintain long-term friends and the ability to make new friends. I guess this dichotomy does exist in our life, since we have limited time and energy, we indeed cannot give equal and sufficient attention to everybody around us. But I don’t think everyone has to share the same idea with regard to this choice, because we all have different personalities and experience. On the one hand, I am a fan of long-lasting relationships, but I also respect those who can make friends easily. This apparent difference really comes from our different needs.
For starters, I enjoy long-term friendships in that old friends are the ones who stand behind you and always support you to move forward, just like your relatives who bond with you. It is quite an honor for me to have such kind of friends. And it can be proved by a story between me and my best friend. When I was in senior high school, I was a member in the dancing club. One day, the teacher taught us to perform a new dancing move. Even if I tried several times, it was still too hard for me to complete it and I felt too nervous, so that at that time almost everyone was laughing at me except my best friend. Instead, she just went over to me and gave me a remedy on how to do it unhesitately. Even after so many years, she is still my best friend whom I trust most; because I am clearly conscious of that she will never leave me behind. Keeping friendship with such an old friend over several years indeed brings me a sense of happiness and provides us with a safety net.
Still, making new friends is also an indispensable part of my life, which renders my life increasingly fantastic. Although I am a undergraduate student majoring in biology, I prefer taking part in different kinds of activities to just doing experiment alone in labs. When I find someone who share mutual thought or have similar interest with me, I am willing to get to know them and keep in touch with them, which enormously enrich my life. Doing research regarding the combination of different majors with biology is my favorite as well, and the capability to make new friends with people from a variety of fields ensures/guarantee better cooperation between us. Hence, making new friends brings me another kind of happiness.
Of course, I am capable of defending myself when some people point out that friendship which you establish with ease is vulnerable, because I think that whether friendship can last long depends on how well you maintain it, not the way by which you become friends. In some cases, long-lasting friends may begin with an occasional chance and you will find a mutual respect and trust when you get to know each other deeper.
Overall, old friends and new friends are both precious parts of our lives. From my perspective, both the skill to keep a few intimates and building new relationships occasionally is crucial for us.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 129, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...e increasingly fantastic. Although I am a undergraduate student majoring in biolo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, really, regarding, so, still, well, as to, i guess, i think, kind of, of course, in some cases, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 78.0 43.0788530466 181% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2428.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 522.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65134099617 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67631034678 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515325670498 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 742.5 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6497353404 48.9658058833 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.565217391 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6956521739 20.6045352989 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95652173913 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290515285537 0.236089414692 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0831775753092 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0737696992924 0.0737576698707 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15683554452 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0298254320817 0.0645574589148 46% => 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: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 58.1214874552 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.3 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 86.8835125448 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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