Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

The importance of family as a unified union has always been a great matter. Throughout history, humans have learned the merits of collective activities and reliance on their own kind specially their own relatives. While people in the past considered large families a great source of power and control, in today's world this has become less important for some reasons. This essay will discuss this matter in thoroughly.

To begin with, as a great source of power, families have played a vital role in society. Humans are social creatures who need to establish fine relationships with others to ensure their survivals in such a challenging world. In the past, people used to have large families consisting of many houses and relatives who would assist each other specially in times of need. During devastating wars, various families allied with each other to fight enemies. Moreover, several members of a family used to collaborate on a specific task, for instance on a farm, to achieve success and thrive. This role has become less significant for many reasons. One main reason might be the fact that people have become busier in this modern world. They have to work harder and in some cases for more hours to provide for their families. Also, in old days, people had less needs and were satisfied with what they had, but now people want to gain more to enjoy the life. As a result, people have less time to spend on a whole unit of relatives.

In addition, financial issues have had great effects on this matter. In the past, some members of a family worked all day and what they earned was enough to support a large family. The modern world has changed this pattern. Even in small families, both parents should work to earn money for several purposes. Some people prefer to travel at least once a year, while some others have to save that money for college expenses of their own children. Furthermore, some people prefer to spend most of what the earn on luxury things such as recreational facilities and they want to enjoy them alone. I remember my grand father used to tell me about his childhood memories. His family was a large one and he has many uncles and aunts as well as many cousins. They used to travel in one group which was enjoyable for them, according to him. They shared what they had, from food to clothes and they wanted all of them to feel a sense of happiness. That was a unique lifestyle and it is not expected from people to follow that in this age.

In conclusion, the unifying role of families have become less important nowadays. People usually have to work long hours to earn money to spend on what they desire and they may not be able to pass the time with their families anymore. I believe, this role was of greater importance in the past and people appreciated having a large family of relatives who helped each other in numerous ways.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 848, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun needs is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...families. Also, in old days, people had less needs and were satisfied with what they...
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Line 5, column 501, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ome people prefer to spend most of what the earn on luxury things such as recreational f...
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, well, while, at least, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as, in some cases, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 52.1666666667 161% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2367.0 1977.66487455 120% => OK
No of words: 507.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66863905325 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35845646819 2.67179642975 88% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473372781065 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 749.7 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.94265232975 243% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6583221962 48.9658058833 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.5357142857 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1071428571 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21428571429 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133690675998 0.236089414692 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0424282844725 0.076458572812 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.040072811595 0.0737576698707 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0946955520221 0.150856017488 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.019268573972 0.0645574589148 30% => 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: 9.6 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.51 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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