Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
I totally agree that nowadays, the extended family counts less than in the past.
When I was in Paris for one year's exchange programme, on a social problem class, the teacher discussed with us the evolution of the concept of family. She said that the family has passed from the traditional concept of extended family to core family, and even to other forms of family, such as families of DINK couples. The same tendency occurred in both France and China, and in many other parts of the world, I suppose. There are numerous factors contributing to this change.
To begin with, the modern world allows people to live in farther places. As more and more railway stations are built in what was once very remote areas and as the velocity of trains become higher, people are able to travel a long distance and go wherever they want to. This advancement enables them to reach places they dared not even dream of. Therefore, family members do not live together any more as an aggregation. Also, with the development of telecom technology, people are able to keep in touch with their family and friends without staying right beside them.
Another remarkable point is that, as the technology becomes more and more cutting-edge, the generation gap becomes larger. For example, my grand parents can hardly understand what I do everyday with my smartphone, and sometimes even if I explain its functions to them, this small device is still strange to them.
What's more, the modern society provides people with various opportunities. During the process of urbanisation, a lot of young people move from their hometown to big cities, seeking for a job opportunity that may change their whole life. Often, cities offer bunches of opportunities, allowing some of these young to become millionaires. Others who stayed in the hometown, on hearing the legend created by these young people, followed them to the cities. As time goes by, it is often the old who are left in the countryside. Thus, the entire family is split into several fragments, scattering about in different places.
Lastly, the busy life in cities leaves people with less time to spend on their family. The quick-paced life in cities is always surrounded by work. People rarely have time to stop their work to see their family. Even if they have some leisure time, they would prefer spending it on themselves or on their children. I used to live with my grand parents when I was little, but then I moved to another city with my parents. As I grow up, I find that with so much work to do, I barely have the time to call them, not to mention to see them in person. My free time becomes so precious to me that there is not a single person with whom I want to share my time. People are too exhausted to keep a keen relationship with their aunts and uncles, especially when they do not live under the same roof.
With the four reasons I mentioned above, I am fully convinced that nowadays, the extended family is less important than it was in the past.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, therefore, thus, for example, i suppose, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 52.1666666667 167% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2536.0 1977.66487455 128% => OK
No of words: 528.0 407.700716846 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80303030303 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79356345386 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64697053715 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 289.0 212.727598566 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547348484848 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 618.680645161 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 11.0 3.08781362007 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.4257380242 48.9658058833 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.761904762 100.406767564 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1428571429 20.6045352989 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.14285714286 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.53405017921 154% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161139520481 0.236089414692 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0454824542306 0.076458572812 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0581632072232 0.0737576698707 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116496922256 0.150856017488 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0958746694457 0.0645574589148 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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