Some people prefer to go shopping in a big supermarket Some people prefer to go shopping in small stores near the community Which do you prefer Explain why | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Some people prefer to go shopping in a big supermarket. Some people prefer to go shopping in small stores near the community.
Which do you prefer? Explain why.

The specialization of labor brought convenience to modern life by having the most productive people produce goods or services that they have a comparative advantage in doing. Thus, shopping has become a daily need for modern people. And I believe shopping in supermarkets is preferable to buying things in small stores.

First, supermarkets offer relatively more affordable prices. Nowadays, most people buy, instead of produce, almost everything they need, from food and clothing to medicine or home appliances. These items can cost a large sum of money from a long-term perspective. Consequently, many people would be sensitive about price differences. Empirical evidence suggests that supermarkets sell the same products at lower prices than corner stores. The reason for this is that supermarkets are selling large volumes of goods, meaning they would be able to have wholesale suppliers offering them goods at lower prices in the first place, making the goods they sell cheaper in return. Also, many supermarkets have freight departments systematically using large trucks to restock their empty shelves. On the other hand, most small shops can only hire individual trucks running by another company to meet their restocking needs, incurring additional expenditure. As a result, supermarkets can lower their expenses, which, in turn, reduces the price they charge to customers.

Second, shopping in a supermarket can be more efficient than in a smaller store. Although people make purchases almost every day, many would avoid shopping multiple times in a given day. Smaller shops are just not big enough to offer a large variety of goods - many of them only sell daily necessities, like food or drinks. But if people also need things such as bicycles or kitchenware, they might have to go to other specialty stores, causing too much time unnecessarily spent shopping. However, at supermarkets, people can find a wide range of goods available, allowing them to buy everything needed in just one trip. Moreover, since supermarkets have more merchandise on display, people can have the chance to compare similar products of different brands with relative ease. Doing this helps them make more economical or better-informed purchasing decisions and avoids the trouble of going to multiple small shops to make price or other comparisons.

To conclude, shopping in a supermarket is better than in small stores because the former is more economical and convenient.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, look, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, such as, as a result, in the first place, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.0286738351 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2092.0 1977.66487455 106% => OK
No of words: 405.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16543209877 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84909813073 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 650.7 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0522224619 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9565217391 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6086956522 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47826086957 5.45110844103 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88709677419 246% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23092231258 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0708171955238 0.076458572812 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668210354211 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158174329117 0.150856017488 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0565328788033 0.0645574589148 88% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 86.8835125448 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
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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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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