TPO-49 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends

In today's progressive world, friends play a very crucial role in individual's life. No one can turn a blind eye to their enormous effects on one's way of living. There is a heated debate which some people believe that maintaining friendships with a small number of friends over a long period is more important for happiness that making new friends easily. I firmly support this statement, and in what follows I will aptly substantiate my point of view.
The first exquisite point to be mentioned is that friendships which are maintained for a long period benefit from a higher level of loyalty, and people usually enjoy being with their loyal friends since they are more trustworthy. It goes without saying that loyalty is something that forms with the passing of time and cannot be expected to happen in a blink of an eye. Hence, older friends whose friendships have been created over a long period of time are more likely to be faithful to their close friends. Consequently, benefiting from several faithful friends around, chances of betrayal are reduced and one can enjoy his friendships more easily. Take my personal experience as an example. When I was in university, I had an old friend called Jack. Whenever I was going through difficulties with a different matters during my university life, it was always him who came in to the picture and helped me overcome those hardships, especially financial ones, and never turned his back on me. This indicates that older friendships bring more loyalty to the relationship.
Another point to be considered is the fact that friends whose friendships have been maintained for a long time are quite familiar with each other, allowing them to easily have fun and make each other happy in different occasions. Needless to say, when some people spend a great deal of time with each other in several years, they discover various aspects of their friends' personality and get to know their pros and cons very well. Therefore, they are well aware of old friends' favorites and can readily make them laugh, and consequently have great time with each other which, without any doubt, will bring memorable happiness to the relationship. For instance, Reza and I have been friends for almost 6 years; therefore, we definitely know what present to get for different occasions for each other, enabling us to make each other happy without putting any thought on that. This illustrates that old friendships provide people with more familiarity and subsequently more happiness.
To sum up, the ability to maintain friendships with a small number of friends over a long period is more important than the ability to make new friends easily due to aforementioned reasons. Thus, I advise people to take care of relationships with older friends if happiness is desired.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 246, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...lieve that maintaining friendships with a small number of friends over a long period is more impo...
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Line 2, column 439, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...iendships have been created over a long period of time are more likely to be faithful to their...
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Line 2, column 812, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'matter'?
Suggestion: matter
...g through difficulties with a different matters during my university life, it was alway...
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Line 4, column 53, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...he ability to maintain friendships with a small number of friends over a long period is more impo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, hence, if, so, therefore, thus, well, for instance, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => 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: 2327.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 468.0 407.700716846 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97222222222 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71912686797 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497863247863 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 712.8 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6664144077 48.9658058833 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.473684211 100.406767564 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6315789474 20.6045352989 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.31578947368 5.45110844103 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
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: 0.381201151924 0.236089414692 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122976836322 0.076458572812 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127906246789 0.0737576698707 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.28418506744 0.150856017488 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111959787601 0.0645574589148 173% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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