TPO-13 - Independent Writing Task
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.
A significant part of contemporary population is prone to believe that the role of the extended family in today's society has declined. I adhere to this stance and the reasons on which my viewpoint is based will be discussed in details below.
Firstly, till the technological revolution the majority of people were engaged in agricultural activities. Each family had to plant crops, watering them and then harvesting them as well. Farming was essential for our predecessors because it was the main source of food and money supply. Back in the past farming required a lot of manual work and one pers...
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Final score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 436 350
No. of Characters: 2009 1500
No. of Different Words: 232 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.57 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.608 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.573 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.762 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.144 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.524 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.305 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.489 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5