Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

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Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

Traveling is a favorite recreation for many people, especially for young

students. It can enable us not only to accumulate our knowledge about history,

culture, geography and local tradition, but also to edify our minds and spirits

greatly. However, upon the question, which is better, traveling alone or together

with several friends, people seem to have different opinions. As far as I am

concerned, I like to travel with friends.

When traveling to other places, the most important thing for us to consider is

safety. In China, many famous scenery spots with Buddhist temples or shrines

are situated in deep mountains or remote areas. Travelers sometimes have to go

on a tiring and even dangerous road before they can arrive at these places:

crossing rivers with rapid currents, climbing high mountains, walking along a

narrow path on deep cliffs etc. If a person travels with others, he may receive

aids or lend a hand to his companion in time of needs. Several years ago, I

traveled with some other people to Wuyi Mountain, a famous scenery spot in

Fujian Province. When climbing a high cliff, one of the people slipped, but he

was grasped by hand almost instantaneously by a man at his side. If he had

traveled there alone, he would have fallen down the high cliff and injured

himself.

Another reason why I prefer to travel with others is that we can ease the feeling

of loneliness and nostalgia by talking with each other. When traveling to far

away and unfamiliar places, we may easily fall into a low spirit and have strong

nostalgic feeling. There are numerous ancient Chinese literary works, poems or

essays etc., which describe such feeling on road. A man sat in an empty hub,

facing a small lamp, seeing the dumping rain outside the window, etc., all

constitute a typical picture of a lonely traveler. But if at this time, the traveler

had a companion to chat with him, his sad feeling would be much lessened.

In a higher sense, life is like a traveling, most of us need someone to

accompany us to go through the road. I think those who have to live alone are

unfortunate ones in human society.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, i think

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1834.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 369.0 407.700716846 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9701897019 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52036308507 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620596205962 0.524837075471 118% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8875558748 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.888888889 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.22222222222 5.45110844103 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 28.0 4.53405017921 618% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 19.0 5.5376344086 343% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
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: 0.272467521847 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0822724163299 0.076458572812 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718896158517 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.066554569163 0.150856017488 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0752146138118 0.0645574589148 117% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 86.8835125448 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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