Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Computer games today are novel, fancy, and very attracting. All these characters make kids can't help but spend a lot of time playing them, damaging their studying, relationships with family, or even their own health. For some sense, this kind of indulging in computer games is very bad and probably a huge waste of time, needed to be banned, of course. However, there are still some benefits that children can earn while playing them. And they are the reasons that I disagree with the statement. Children should be allowed to play them.
First, playing computer games can increase the imagination ...
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Sentence: It give me a sense of what is English and arouse interest in the foreign language.
Description: The fragment It give me is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace give with verb, past tense
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