It is better to have lots of friends than it is to have just a few friends

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It is better to have lots of friends than it is to have just a few friends.

Friendship is the only relationship wherein we have the right to choose the person we find suitable and with whom we can click. All other relations like cousins and relatives are previously decided before our birth. Thus, friends are a very valuable asset to our life and we must choose them wisely. The prompt suggests that it is better to have a lot of different friends than it is just to have a few friends. I disagree with this claim as I believe that quality matters more than quantity especially when it comes to friendship. The two reasons stated below will make my position clear.

First of all, friendships need to be maintained by both the people involved if we want it to be ever-lasting. When we make friends in our schools and colleges, we interact with each other almost on a daily basis. But, when we end up choosing different career paths and move on to live in different cities, it becomes tedious to maintain contact if you have a large bunch of friends. Similarly, on the other side they might have the same problem and just stay in touch with those people who were really close to them. Gradually, in this manner, if you have too many friends, you end up losing touch with many people as time passes and only your true friends will stay by our side through thick and thin. Friendship comes with an additional duty of being there for your dear one through different phases of life. Those who keep up to this are the only ones who deserve this title.

Secondly, many people may seem like our friends at first, but they stay by our side only for their own selfish reasons. It might be possible that you are a brilliant student and thus people stay friends with you to clear their doubts. Another case can be you are a person who socializes a lot and so people stay friends with you so that they can meet other new people who might have similar interests. Such people stay friends with you only till the time they get some benefit from you and then vanish from your life. In this fast moving world, identifying real friends is just like finding a pearl in the ocean. Therefore, if you have few friends it becomes easy to figure out whether they stay with you during your tough times.

To summarize, when we are young we want to make as many friends as possible making a person feel he has a large social circle. But as we face the reality, many people realize it is not possible to give justice to each and every one as a friend. We also understand that many people who seemed like friends turned out to be acquaintances or mere colleagues. Therefore, friendship is a very valuable relationship and should be kept only when it is cherished and responsibilities are fulfilled at both ends.

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Average: 8.2 (2 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 214, Rule ID: EACH_AND_EVERY[1]
Message: Consider using 'each one'.
Suggestion: each one
...e it is not possible to give justice to each and every one as a friend. We also understand that ma...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, really, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, therefore, thus, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 43.0788530466 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2225.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 492.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.52235772358 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3877148766 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473577235772 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 677.7 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.6660684009 48.9658058833 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7391304348 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3913043478 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.47826086957 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277938673751 0.236089414692 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0959139196772 0.076458572812 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.143206469302 0.0737576698707 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189842338105 0.150856017488 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0874484246018 0.0645574589148 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.94 10.9000537634 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.09 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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