Some people like to relax when they go on vacation while others like to go sightseeing and do activities Which do you prefer and why | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Some people like to relax when they go on vacation while others like to go sightseeing and do
activities. Which do you prefer and why?

Throughout the centuries people have invented great diversity of methods to spend their holidays. Someone prefers to be engaged in activities, while others argue for having their vacation in peace and quiet. If I were to choose, I would definitely opt for the latter view, because nothing could be better.

Primarily the vacation is about lowering stress levels, coping with health problems, and not about performing activities you do not really enjoy. I would be better of visiting restaurants and appreciating different foreign cuisines, or lying on the beach, tanning under hot sunbeams. And compared to sightseeing with large guided groups in exhausting tours, the main idea of which is usually to force tourists to purchase as many trinkets as they can, I do consider such vacation appealing. Moreover, several popular YouTube bloggers share my point of view, providing their audience with informative videos about historical roots or cultural features of countries people usually attend on vacation. So, I can learn from this content while performing already mentioned activities.

Secondly, observing the advancement of the internet and other computer networks, we can distinctly notice the emergence of information that was previously unavailable online on websites. This effect means that humanity can learn unknown facts about foreign countries and popular sights not leaving their workplace; however, the cannot feel the hot sun of California from rainy London, or imagine swimming in the warm waters of the Mediterranean sea while attending their local swimming pool. Vacation should be used for getting real emotions, such that you are unable to perceive from the screen of your computer.

To conclude, there is great variety of ways to spend a vacation, and every choice strongly depends on nature of a person. Some people are seeking for "brainstorm", others prefer physical relaxation. As for me, inactive vacations are more beneficial than the active ones, because you get the experience you cannot perceive from home, which makes the vacation really unique.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 369, Rule ID: VERY_UNIQUE[1]
Message: Use simply 'unique'.
Suggestion: unique
...ive from home, which makes the vacation really unique.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, while, as for

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 43.0788530466 56% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1771.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 324.0 407.700716846 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46604938272 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84765838608 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641975308642 0.524837075471 122% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7783746988 48.9658058833 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.5 100.406767564 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1428571429 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 5.45110844103 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184950932321 0.236089414692 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584396693816 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542940065967 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106384867686 0.150856017488 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450659214008 0.0645574589148 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 11.7677419355 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 58.1214874552 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 10.9000537634 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.89 8.01818996416 123% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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