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.

Nowadays, people are having less face time with their relatives, especially members from extended family, which leads to the increasingly distant relationships. Hence, some wrongly assume that the extended family is less important now than it was in the past. In truth, their importance has never changed.

First, they are part of the family. To have a happy family, every member needs to make his/her contribution. Only with good relationships among every member can a harmony family be built. On the contrary, having a bad relationship will inevitably lead to a broken and misery family. For example, when having a party or a meal together on a festival, it is necessary to have a harmonious relationship between the members, so that everyone could share their experience during past few days or months and thus get relaxed. These kinds of parties can also, in turn, strengthen the relationship. However, with bad relationships, these parties would probably culminate in silent ones, where no one is really willing to talk. Probably only some greeting words could be spoken in the parties but nothing more. In the end, the family may be broken, which may bring a sense of loneliness, without any hope to have a harmonious family. Therefore, in order to build a complete and happy family, extended family members are also important.

Besides, family members are always friends indeed. They are someone who you can turn to when in need. Now that only some few friends are trustworthy, it is of great importance to have some true friends. Since there are ties of blood between our family members with us, they will always treat us as their closest friend and altruistically offer their help whenever we are asking, as long as the relationships are not so terrible. Therefore, these relationships need to be and should have been kept well.

Speaking of offering help, most of them, like your grandparents, probably helped to bring you up. Beyond the moral obligation to repay them, the invaluable memory also makes this relationship even more important. No other people but they know about what funny things you did and what mistakes you made in your childhood. This kind of treasure is not something can be seen or stored. It only exists between people, between you and your family members. Without them, there may be a sense of vain and lonely when recalling childhood. Besides, there are always some memories of which you probably have no deep impression. That is when your family members can do you a favor, to help you recall. Without them, this part of memory will be lost forever. Therefore, keeping a good relationship with them is the same as to keep a kind of invaluable treasure.

In sum, extended family members are still important, for they are necessary to build a harmony family, true friends and part of the memory in our childhood.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, hence, however, may, really, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, as to, for example, kind of, speaking of, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 15.1003584229 185% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 43.0788530466 111% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2378.0 1977.66487455 120% => OK
No of words: 481.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94386694387 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68790929781 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486486486486 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 742.5 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 4.94265232975 324% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6003584229 141% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.8456620438 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.0 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5862068966 20.6045352989 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27586206897 5.45110844103 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
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: 0.160464403818 0.236089414692 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467847666952 0.076458572812 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621096545875 0.0737576698707 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105624481362 0.150856017488 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0636048939024 0.0645574589148 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.02 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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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