TOEFL essay: Some people think that the family is the most important influence on young adults. Other people think that friends are the most important influence on young adults. Which view do you agree with? Use examples to support your position.

Essay topics

As we live in society and belong to different social community, being influenced by other people to whom we relate is almost inevitable. Two of the most important social systems that have a large impact on our lives are family and peers. We are affected by our friends in several ways, but it is the family which will shape the outline of our lives. I feel this way for two reasons I will vastly explore in the following essay.

To begin with, family members are the ones with whom we grow up, they teach us how to see the world we live in and influence our interpretation of experiences and events go around. They bring up and support us both intellectually and financially as we develop from infant to young adult, so it logically leads to being greatly dependent on family members. In addition, they know us well enough to give a guidelines on major decision in life. For example when I decided to go to university at that age, my father always told me how good I am at designing and encourages me to be an architect. On the other side friends will influence on our immediate life style for example what to have for fun, our clothing styles or help us in the course of life.

Secondly because, young adults at that age spend most of their lives with family members or at most with relatives. So through this time children get familiar with their parents ideologies, theories about the people, society, events take place around us. They indicate us what is worth doing and what is not, how to relate people which will influence on our future social life, help us discover our talents and flourish them. For example I was born in a family with high ability in artistic activity, so I began to play piano when I was 4 and at this time right now I am very professional at it which without my parents enforcement I would never do that. And also lots of friend I have had at that time was because of my proficiency at playing music.

Thirdly, family members influence on our friend choice unconsciously due to the way they train their children. For example everyone at school or other community attract to people who have the same goal as the other have. Or find people who meet their criterias.

All in all, to put the issue into a nut shell, family influence on teenagers’ lives to a more extend than their friends. And that is mostly because of intellectual, financial dependency and the amount of time they spend with their family.

Votes
Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 403, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a guideline' or simply 'guidelines'?
Suggestion: a guideline; guidelines
...ition, they know us well enough to give a guidelines on major decision in life. For example ...
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Line 5, column 665, Rule ID: LOTS_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun friend seems to be countable; consider using: 'lots of friends'.
Suggestion: lots of friends
...rcement I would never do that. And also lots of friend I have had at that time was because of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, for example, i feel, in addition, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 7.30242825607 246% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 22.412803532 277% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 30.3222958057 234% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2011.0 1373.03311258 146% => OK
No of words: 441.0 270.72406181 163% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.56009070295 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.04702891845 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54932571575 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 145.348785872 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517006802721 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 419.366225166 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8630533461 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.842105263 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2105263158 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57894736842 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208551644387 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0672290148927 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0401249713266 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123318783673 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0257476417953 0.0443174109184 58% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.2367328918 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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