Some people prefer to travel alone. Others like to travel in groups. Which do you think is the best way to travel? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your choice.

Today, tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. A lot of people spend their free time visiting different places around the world. Some people prefer to travel alone whereas other people prefer to travel with a companion. I prefer to travel with a companion and I am going to explain why I prefer doing so.

First of all, when you travel with a companion, you may have the advantage of sharing the costs of the trip, like that of the hotel room for example. That way, you can save money and maybe extend your holiday or travel to other places. Hotels also offer many campaigns for couples or groups. For example, I made a trip to Ukraine with my friends. There were four of us and we rented the rooms in pairs. We also shared many costs such as taxi costs and meal fees. Therefore we were able to stay at more luxurious hotels and go to more pricier places to have fun. Although we had the chance and money to do so, we preferred to spend money on buying gifts for our families.

Secondly, when you travel with a friend, especially to somewhere far away, you know that you are not alone. You might face difficulties and can probably overcome it with your friend. Traveling with a friend also gives the opportunity to enjoy happy memories. This can make your trip more memorable and unforgettable. I took a trip with my cousin. We rented a caravan and traveled throughout four different cities. In each city, we took many great photos, ate delicious meals, saw fascinating places and met new friends. We collected great memories. That trip strengthened our ties even more. If I had been alone, my trip would not be as enjoyable as it was with him.

To sum up, I think it is better to travel with a companion because you can have more fun and save money. In addition, you enjoy unforgettable moments and collect common memories with your friends.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of the hotel room for example. That way, you can save money and maybe extend your...
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Suggestion: Therefore,
...costs such as taxi costs and meal fees. Therefore we were able to stay at more luxurious ...
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Line 3, column 532, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'pricier' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: pricier
...stay at more luxurious hotels and go to more pricier places to have fun. Although we had the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, whereas, for example, i think, in addition, such as, you know, first of all, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => 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: 1533.0 1977.66487455 78% => OK
No of words: 335.0 407.700716846 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.57611940299 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4196676865 2.67179642975 91% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.558208955224 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 618.680645161 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.1344086022 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.4476458715 48.9658058833 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 63.875 100.406767564 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.9583333333 20.6045352989 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271629525553 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773901617565 0.076458572812 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0988938764936 0.0737576698707 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183585927641 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0715065349143 0.0645574589148 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.1 11.7677419355 60% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.2 58.1214874552 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.0 10.1575268817 59% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.69 10.9000537634 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 86.8835125448 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.0537634409 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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