In some countries, people are no longer allowed to smoke in many public places and office buildings. Do you think this is good rule or a bad rule?
Public rules have always been a matter of debate because they affect everyone and should take into account every individual’s rights. One of these important issues is whether or not smoking should be allowed in public places. I think that countries that have banned smoking in public places are doing a good job. Two reasons are provided in the following paragraphs.
First, smoking in public is a violation of non-smokers’ rights. Smoking is mostly considered a personal action among smokers. However, this idea is not correct, since cigarettes emit a lot of smoke into the surrounding environment. Anyone who is within a three-meter range of a smoker is exposed to their extremely unpleasant smoke. This is of course for open space. In a building, everyone in the whole building will be exposed to the smoke. As a result, this harmful addiction, that is smoking, will harm not only the smokers themselves but the people around too. Everyone is free to do whatever they want as long as they do not violate others’ freedom. Smoking is clearly a violation of non-smokers’ freedom, and it is rational to conclude that banning smoking in public places is a beneficial rule.
Second, exhibiting harmful and addictive habits in society may promote them. Cigarettes are highly addictive, and people, especially young ones, see and learn. Or at least they get curious. Children and teenagers like to act like “grown-ups”, and when they see “grown-ups” smoke in public, they categorize smoking as something “cool”. Since smoking is very addictive, trying it once may lead to a life- long addiction. Conclusively, we should not let teenagers and children be exposed to such harmful behaviors. The first step to that is banning smoking in public places. As a matter of fact, the same thing happened to me. I grew up in an environment where almost everyone smoked. I did not start smoking right away, but I always thought of smoking as interesting. Not surprisingly, I became a smoker in my early years as a college student. I smoked for years, and it was really hard to quit. Although there are many other important factors, in my case, the main one was my environment. If smoking had not been allowed in public places back then, I might have never become addicted.
All in all, smoking in public places has numerous downsides, and it is a wise decision not to allow it. Not only is smoking in public a direct violation of non- smokers’ freedom, but also it promotes this harmful habit.
Grammar level: intermediate By: Mansour
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- In some countries, people are no longer allowed to smoke in many public places and office buildings. Do you think this is good rule or a bad rule? 70
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- Taking a lot of time to make an important decision is viewed as a bad quality for a person to have. But now it is considered as a good quality of a person. 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 173, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...ights. One of these important issues is whether or not smoking should be allowed in public pla...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, second, so, then, at least, i think, of course, as a matter of fact, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2150.0 1977.66487455 109% => OK
No of words: 427.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03512880562 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13134984694 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536299765808 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 675.0 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.86738351254 428% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6003584229 146% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.1013427052 48.9658058833 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 71.6666666667 100.406767564 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.2333333333 20.6045352989 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13333333333 5.45110844103 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228426989223 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0587337518389 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611996231018 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132297147272 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0752244237979 0.0645574589148 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 11.7677419355 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 10.1575268817 87% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.36 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 86.8835125448 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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