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 easily.

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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 easily.

Friends play an important role in most of the people's lives. A controversial question among scholars regarding this matter is whether the ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people is more important for happiness or the ability to make new friends. I contend it is more important to be able to keep the long-lasting relationships with a small number of friends. In the following paragraphs, I will describe the most important reasons supporting my viewpoint.
The first reason is that people in long-lasting relationships know each other better. In other words, they know situations and behaviors that might make their friend sad or irritated. They also have a profound knowledge about things that can make their friends happy. Therefore, it is of low probability to do the stuff that makes their friend sad. For example, when I was in college I became friends with my roommates and they organized a party for my birthday. However, I appreciated their tries I became a little sad after seeing their presents because they have bought some stuff that I was not interested in and I never used their gifts. I realized that was because they did not know me well thus, they had no idea what to buy for me. Hence, new friends may hurt each other’s feelings and that causes sadness.
The second reason to be mentioned is that sharing worries and problems with close friends is easy compared to the new relationships. Put it differently, it is very easy to get help from people who you know for a long time compared to the people who you have a newly formed relationship. For instance, my dad has many friends from his college and some from work. Whenever he has a financial problem, his friends from college lend him some money and help him even though he is close to his coworkers. He says it is very easy to get help from old friends since they trust him. Therefore, old friends can help in solving each other’s problems since they trust each other and by this means, they result in each other’s happiness.
To sum it up, close old friends can help you in dilemmas and new friends might hurt each other’s feelings since they do not know each other well.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 176, 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 people is more important for happiness ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 355, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...eep the long-lasting relationships with a small number of friends. In the following paragraphs, I...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, for instance, you know, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1810.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 382.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73821989529 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68575160763 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.465968586387 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.9 618.680645161 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.5174494226 48.9658058833 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2631578947 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1052631579 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.10526315789 5.45110844103 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264976213353 0.236089414692 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0904402413122 0.076458572812 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0933790082032 0.0737576698707 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180961743217 0.150856017488 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132843975245 0.0645574589148 206% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.03 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 86.8835125448 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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