TPO-13 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

With the rapid development of the human society, consanguinity is gradually neglected by some people since they can support themselves without relying on their relatives, and such preference could be attributed to several Industrial Revolutions. However, I think extended family is as important now as it was in the past for all concerned.

The foremost reason is that people can get support from their extended family, both financially and mentally. My relatives are the ones who encourage me. They always favor me not only because we share the same family name, but also because they wish me a better life. They are extremely proud of and honored by my accomplishments and little progresses. Furthermore, they are sometimes more selfless than my friends. I was so moved that my aunt aided me financially when I had a difficulty with my tuition fee, although she's not rich enough to send his son to a private university.

In addition to the importance of getting support from extended family, the extended family is the one that has been accompanying me since my childhood. Certainly, it is not easy for some people to communicate with their grandparents especially when they become a young adult, and they tend to hold parties with their peers rather than chat with their extended family. However, I think it would be fair to say that grandparents also nurture us to some extent. These days young parents struggle to work to earn their living and give their children a better future, thus decreasing their time with their kids. Under this circumstance, asking the baby's grandparents for help is a good choice. I can recall going to the kindergarten together with my cousin, hand in hand, led by our grandparents. It was also our grandmother who always bought us our favorite candies while taking us home. I really had a good time being accompanied by my extended family, which is so memorable to me.

Finally, the extended family does not necessarily mean that they care about me less than my parents. Although some of my relatives do not live together with me, they are concerned about me in various ways. Hence, I do not think it is necessarily fair to claim that just because they are not my immediate family, they are somehow unable to care for me. In fact, my relatives do care about me a lot. By way of example, my grandparents send me messages about healthy lifestyles regularly through Facebook, and my uncle sent me a MacBook as a gift when I entered university.

By way of conclusion, it is the necessity to visit and support our extended family as much as we can since our relatives are more important than we think.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 520, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: she's
...ifficulty with my tuition fee, although shes not rich enough to send his son to a pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, hence, however, if, really, so, thus, while, i think, in addition, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 82.0 43.0788530466 190% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2190.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 454.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82378854626 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80058435335 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493392070485 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 699.3 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => 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: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8785301367 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5454545455 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6363636364 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86363636364 5.45110844103 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => 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: 0.144578845062 0.236089414692 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0512521406658 0.076458572812 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0479071469715 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0961947335761 0.150856017488 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0287515618926 0.0645574589148 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.52 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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