Today family members eat fewer meals together.
Why is this?
Is this a positive or negative trend?
It is certainly true that the number of daily meals that families have together has decreased from three to one. In my opinion, this is because people have busy daily schedules these days, and this situation is far from positive for family bonds.
People have more duties and responsibilities that they have to accomplish on a daily basis today than ever before. Therefore, not only parents, but also children have little time to have proper meals around a table as a family. In the morning, while one of the parents is responsible for taking children to schools or kindergartens, the other one looks after household before leaving for work. The only meal that families have together is dinner in some cases, since everybody seems to have lunch outside.
As family members are busy during the day, mealtimes are special occasions when members of families can have a talk and discuss family matters. Providing that this occasion becomes rare, relationship between children and parents can be affected. In other words, they start losing contact with each other and this situation may have negative implications in the future of a family. However, it can be argued that it has a positive effect on children, since they learn to be independent when they have meals outside with their friends. Yet, there is little evidence to support this view.
To conclude, daily chores and work make it challenging for people to have more meals together with their immediate family. I think, people should seek for ways to organize their daily routine to make it more family-friendly. If they do that, they might have a chance to strengthen their family.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, then, therefore, while, i think, in my opinion, in other words, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1371.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 275.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98545454545 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58180281686 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549090909091 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.2999965174 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.9285714286 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.28571428571 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212176552916 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0808561978644 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576540135532 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140863356263 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0797010794484 0.056905535591 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.0946893788 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.58950901804 89% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 78.4519038076 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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