Shopping is now one of the most popular forms of leisure activity in many countries for young adults. Why this? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

Nowadays many people, especially young adult resort to shopping in their spare time and consider it a form of relaxing activity. Two of the main reasons are online shopping and convenience. In my opinion, even though it is a medium for many to de-stress it causes wasteful expenditure and sometimes even leads to addiction.

To begin with, due to the internet boom, online shopping has made it very easy to shop at your convenience. In addition, many youngsters prefer ordering all their necessities from a single website rather than visiting multiple stores. Moreover, these shopping sites provide free delivery and cash backs along with enticing discounts to those who purchase in bulk, consequently encouraging people to buy more. To cite an example, initially Ikea used to witness the highest sales of furniture, now Amazon has overtaken that number as the offer free worldwide shipping and also free installation. Some like to indulge in their free time, for they believe shopping to be therapeutic.

Nonetheless, the major downside to mindless shopping is purchasing unnecessary items. These days shops slash the prices of old or poor quality goods and try to con the public on the pretext of sales. People flock in large number to these stores and many times than not end up spending on things they do't need. Furthermore, some are extremely addicted to shopping, that they go into utter despair if they miss out on a good bargain. All in all, it proves that if shopping is considered a leisure activity it causes more damage than good.

In conclusion, young adults should pick up a sport or spend some time developing a hobby instead of shopping. Rather than spending money on sales, the same can be saved or used in self development.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 98, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'shop'.
Suggestion: shop
...urchasing unnecessary items. These days shops slash the prices of old or poor quality...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, furthermore, if, moreover, nonetheless, so, in addition, in conclusion, in my opinion, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1458.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97610921502 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69100886856 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.645051194539 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.2462619987 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.2 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5333333333 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06120827912 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131880417268 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431757255754 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0309273835969 0.0667982634062 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0775990138849 0.151304729494 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301340446024 0.056905535591 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.0946893788 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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