It has been said that people who read for pleasure have more developed imaginations
and better language skills than people who prefer to watch TV. Do you agree or
disagree?
Some people think that reading for pleasure increases people’s imagination and language
skills more so than watching TV does. Personally, I totally agree with this view and will analyze
the reasons in the following essay.
Reading for enjoyment can help people to develop their imagination and improve their
language skills in many ways. Firstly, while watching television is said to be more of a passive
activity, reading is considered to be an active form of learning. Reading stimulates people’s
brains more as they have to use their imagination to visualize the characters and plot of the
story, and this helps to further develop their imaginative thinking skills. Secondly, language
skills can also be improved from reading. By reading regularly, people can expand their
vocabulary and learn different grammatical structures and how to use them effectively.
Watching TV, on the other hand, does little to enhance people’s imagination and language
skills. While reading, people have plenty of time to read the text and visualize the content of
the story. However, when watching TV, viewers use their imagination very little, as they can
see the images on the screen. Furthermore, the dialogue of the story or movie is usually
spoken at a fast pace, which does not give viewers much time to comprehend what is being
said, let alone learning anything new. Finally, television is full of advertisements these days
and therefore distracts viewers from what they are watching. This makes it even more difficult
for people to absorb information that might enhance their language skills.
In conclusion, I believe that reading books is a more efficient way for people to enhance their
imagination and language skills while watching TV is simply more of a source of
entertainment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 13, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38811188811 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78873061376 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.548951048951 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.869220812 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.071428571 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4285714286 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.21428571429 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.38176352705 456% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.3736514892 0.244688304435 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143455231002 0.084324248473 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116083913231 0.0667982634062 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118258879447 0.151304729494 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0911212808153 0.056905535591 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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