TPO 3 Independent Writing Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

"Show me your friend, then I can say who you are." Friends are an important part of our life. Some people concur that gaining new friends is more significant than keeping old ones. However, I disagree with this notion and argue that maintaining old friendships is more important for three reasons, and I will develop these ideas in subsequent paragraphs.

First of all, we say "old friend" because we met him or her a long time ago. That means we know each other very well. For example, I have a very old friend and first time we met on school twenty two years ago. He knows me very well. He knows almost all of my strengths and weaknesses. Thus, he can understand my problem without I notice him in every situation. Additionally, he knows the best solution for my problem. It is also the same for me. I can predict what he needs before he tells me. In addition to this, we can clearly state our problems to each other. In contrast, I can not share some personal situations and get advice from my relatively new friends. For this reason, continuing my old friendships is always my first priority.

Second of all, no one can deny that believing in each other is one of the most important things in any type of relationship. In my opinion, this strong credence exists more in mature relationships. Drawing from my own experience, when I chose a partner for my new large start-up company, I filtered all of my friends based on how much I believed them rather than their skills and experience. Because, how can you share important information and other things that are precious for you without believing that person? It is certainly clear to see why keeping old friends should be primary goal rather than winning novel friends. 

Third of all, convenient modern life of today has many hardships. People should work hard in order to satisfy their needs and survive. For instance, when I was a child, I could not see my father except weekends. There is little time for socializing and spending with family or friends. To me, that is correct for most of the population. Hence, if we consistently make new friends, we can not take time for all of them equally. At the end, we will have a lot of weak friends and relationships. 

To make a long story short, for the three reasons outlined above, I am of the opinion that having a few old, close friends is more important than having a lot of weak friendships.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, third, thus, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in contrast, first of all, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 71.0 43.0788530466 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2004.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 431.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64965197216 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68807297065 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533642691415 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 20.0 9.59856630824 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.0352260964 48.9658058833 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.0769230769 100.406767564 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5769230769 20.6045352989 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76923076923 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
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: 0.190498390877 0.236089414692 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492062623853 0.076458572812 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619115734245 0.0737576698707 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140833382127 0.150856017488 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0920233458132 0.0645574589148 143% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.8 11.7677419355 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 58.1214874552 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.39 10.9000537634 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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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