Independent TOEFL essay TPO 8 Agree or disagree Television advertising directed towards young children aged two to five should not be allowed

People are bombarded with advertisements on everyday life. Many people have different opinions about advertising. Author asserts that, young children should not be exposed to commercials. I strongly disagree with this notion for two reasons and I will develop these ideas in the following paragraphs.

First of all, I see nothing wrong with promotions if they prepared correctly. What I mean when saying correctly? If there is no sexual or unwanted scenes and elements in the advertisement, there should not be any problem. In my opinion, there are government regulatory agencies that control advertisements in all sectors. Thus, if there is something wrong with promotion, it won't be published. In addition, because children usually watch child channels and its commercials are mostly designed for young children' interests, there seems no harm for children.

Secondly, no one can deny that children spend most of their time with watching cartoons et cetera. According to the latest researches, it is useful for improving their imagination. In order to continue showing that kind of sfuffs, channels need advertisiment revenues. It is also beneficial for companies. If you are a company that produces toys, your major target group is children. Drawing from my own experience, it is really useful method and works very well. For instance, when my little brother was child and watching this kind of TV channels, he really gave a lot of attention to commercials that saw in the TV. Almost every day, he came and asked from my parents to buy a new toy that just saw in TV. Of course, I do admit that it can be harmful for family's budget, but for the reason I stated above, channels should display commercials.

In light of reasons mentioned, I strongly believe that television advertising aimed to children should be allowed. Furthermore, TV channels that are not exclusive for kids, but had time slot for cartoons for example, lost revenue as a result from this new law forbidding ads for children. With this, fewer channels now have this dedicated space for a younger audience. For instance, growing up in a not really wealthy family, I did not have cable TV and relied on the Kids show on free channels to have some fun. And now, I know for a fact that the show that I used to watch as a kid, with lots of cartoons, stopped airing, because there is no financial support.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that ads targetting younger audiences should be allowed. This is because without these ads, kids are subjected to adult-related ads, that are not in their interest, and also, because children have less options for consuming content.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 231, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun options is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...terest, and also, because children have less options for consuming content.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, really, second, secondly, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, i mean, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, of course, as a result, first of all, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 43.0788530466 118% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2206.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 442.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99095022624 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7975696338 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545248868778 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.3502704817 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.8461538462 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 20.6045352989 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125499146156 0.236089414692 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0402215969173 0.076458572812 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.05530118217 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0882345236118 0.150856017488 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0423616588997 0.0645574589148 66% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 10.002688172 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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