Ielts question today!!! Weddings are becoming very expensive thesedays when compared to the past.
What are causes of this?
It it a positive or negative development
Weddings these days have become very exorbitant unlike in times past. Some causes of this development are media influence and show off mentality of the 21st century man. The impact of this on the society can be said to be negative. The causes and effects of this trend will be discussed in detail in this essay.
The primary reason for expensive weddings these days is media influence. In the past the influence of media was very limited, but these days people are bombarded with latest wedding trend and high class weddings on social and print media resulting in them wanting similar weddings even though they are costly. For example, a recent marriage trend in Nigeria copied from social media is prewedding pictures that costs over 300,000 naira on the average. Another reason for increase in affluent wedding rites is the desire to out do peers and families. Many people these days want their events to be the talk of the town and as such procure State of the art halls, live bands and imported clothings.
The impact of this is a negative one. Firstly, couples have resorted to loans to meet up with the financial requirements for a societal wedding. This has led to indebtedness and put a strain on their young marriages. For instance , the Managing Director of Renmoney, a loan agency in Nigeria, disclosed that newly weds are most likely to default on their loans due to the excessive funds commited to their marriage ceremonies. Secondly, it has led to increase in unmarried people. In other words, many are unable to take the leap due to the financial consideration involved these days. In olden days cheap weddings at the brides home was common, but these days it is seen as an anomaly.
In conclusion, media pressure and tendency to outdo others are the reason for costly weddings which has led many to financial stress and made lots of people dread marriage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: with the latest
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Message: Did you mean 'state-of-the-art'?
Suggestion: State-of-the-art
...he talk of the town and as such procure State of the art halls, live bands and imported clothing...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1557.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 323.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82043343653 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44800176063 2.80592935109 87% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554179566563 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5707015934 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5882352941 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.82352941176 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162967414259 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0577901585185 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575124441895 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100347876804 0.151304729494 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0720852742176 0.056905535591 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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