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

The ability to make new friends is important to an individual, since human are social animals, and any individual could not live without interaction with the society. However, the long lasted friendship could bring more happiness than the ability to socialize could.

Firstly, people tend to have more common topics with their old friends instead of new friends. When I and my old friends are together, we always could talk about interesting things happened in the past. For instance, last week, I met with my high school classmates and we talked about the basketball competition with another class in the school. Although we finally lost that match, it is hard to forget that feeling when we fight together. However, There could hardly be such topics with new friends. Given that talking about the old things could largely increase the enjoyment of the meeting, It could bring more happiness to be with old friends instead of meeting new friends.

Moreover, old friends mean higher loyalty. As an old saying goes:"a friend in need is a friend indeed", the help from friends when you are in trouble could be a great relief, and old friends could choose to stand by your side in any time. My uncle tried to establish his own company when he was about to graduate from the university and invited several his old friends as a co-founder. They made a success in the beginning and my uncle met several new friends to invest in his company. However, due to that famous economic crisis in 2008, the company was bankrupted. Those new friends suddenly disappeared after they sold their shares while the old friends of my uncle continued to support him. In the most situation, the old friends are more reliable. Therefore, the ability to maintain the relationship with old friends could certainly bring more happiness.

It is true that the ability to meet new friends important since human are social animals and sometimes new friends mean new opportunities. However, without the ability to maintain friendships, making friends is meaningless since there would be low or no returns for the time you spent on socializing if you do not have loyal allies and those opportunities brought by so-called new friends could be the fraud.

To sum up, the abilities of maintaining the friendship is much essential compared to the ability to make new friends. The same experience and loyalty of old friends could bring more happiness to one's life.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, while, for instance, talking about, it is true, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2040.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 410.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9756097561 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62450357902 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.482926829268 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 596.7 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5674804418 48.9658058833 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.0 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => 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: 0.274455176969 0.236089414692 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101704944922 0.076458572812 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703191848573 0.0737576698707 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195022042028 0.150856017488 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0479283930503 0.0645574589148 74% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => 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: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.52 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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