Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Generally speaking, friendship has been a fundamental and long-lasting relationship since the beginning of human history. Complex as it is, people have discussed multiple aspects of the definition of friends. As an old saying goes "Old friendship lasts forever", I, personally support the idea which maintaining old friendship is way more valuable than making new friends.

First of all, a friend in need is a friend indeed. It is crucially important to have friend to reach out to while you're struggling or under huge stress. From my experience, an old friendship passes the exam without saying. When my dead father died of brain stroke, it was my high school mate, John, who called me for the first time, helping to relieve my grief. Moreover, he kept me company for the following weeks and encouraged me to look on the bright side of life. A proper sympathy from him moves all the burden on my shoulder. Needless to say, it is unlikely that new folks whom you met in the library a few weeks ago would offer this kind of help.

Besides, true friendship should be a relationship of mutually respected, understanding and comfort. For example, knowing that I am not used to drinking, every time when I hang out with Jason, a friend I have known for 10 years, he would never ask me to have any alcoholic beverage for fun or even make fun of me on it. On the other hand, a new friend maybe polite at first but under the surface, he/she would possibly joke about one's behaviour. Accordingly, old friendship is the one worth maintaining.

Overall speaking, I strongly agree with the idea of maintaining old, long-lasting friendship since they are the one who would help you get through difficulties and show respectiveness. Again, as the old saying goes, "a friend in need is a friend indeed".

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 86, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'friended'.
Suggestion: friended
...deed. It is crucially important to have friend to reach out to while youre struggling ...
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Line 5, column 115, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: you're
...nt to have friend to reach out to while youre struggling or under huge stress. From m...
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Line 9, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e polite at first but under the surface, he/she would possibly joke about ones be...
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Line 9, column 431, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...face, he/she would possibly joke about ones behaviour. Accordingly, old friendship ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, besides, but, first, if, look, may, moreover, so, while, for example, kind of, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => 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: 1516.0 1977.66487455 77% => OK
No of words: 311.0 407.700716846 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87459807074 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87265880478 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.614147909968 0.524837075471 117% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 618.680645161 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3579399213 48.9658058833 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.75 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4375 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6875 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.181763305103 0.236089414692 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0535970530942 0.076458572812 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0500732412033 0.0737576698707 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108949226942 0.150856017488 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0294412492498 0.0645574589148 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 11.7677419355 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 10.9000537634 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.52 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 86.8835125448 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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