Online shopping is destroying local businesses.Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping with regards to this statement. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experiences or observations.

These days online shopping is enjoying its widespread popularity among customers.Although online shopping has both certain benefits and pitfalls as compared to local businesses. This essay will discuss the pluses and minuses of online shopping over local businesses.

On the one hand online shopping is quite convenient when it comes to managing time. Many individuals these days are quite engaged with their day to day routines so they find buying something online much easier than visiting a local vendor. A working housewife, for example, after getting exhausted from her whole day work, would prefer to purchase her grocery online. Thus, e-commerce actually have made it convenient to shop any commodity from groceries to electronics by sitting at any place.

However, online shopping do have certain drawback as well. Purchasing something online doesn't give the feeling of real shopping, which one can feel through local shopping. While buying any apparel online, for instance, one can't touch and inspect the fabrics which one can get those experiences through local shopping. Therefore, local businesses still holds its uniqueness over online shopping by providing real shopping feeling.

This essay has discussed why online shopping is convenient in terms of saving time though it doesn't gives the feeling of real shopping. In my opinion the disadvantage of online shopping is much more than its advantages.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, if, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.5418719212 47% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 8.36945812808 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 5.94088669951 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 31.9359605911 69% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.75862068966 17% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1126.0 1207.87684729 93% => OK
No of words: 206.0 242.827586207 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46601941748 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.78849575616 3.92707691288 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68303917557 2.71678728327 99% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 139.433497537 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650485436893 0.580463131201 112% => OK
syllable_count: 344.7 379.143842365 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.5024630542 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.5475337365 50.4703680194 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8333333333 104.977214359 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1666666667 20.9669160288 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.25397266985 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.33497536946 112% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273065143744 0.242375264174 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108440108819 0.0925447433944 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530914653481 0.071462118173 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183158702877 0.151781067708 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0521113012439 0.0609392437508 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 12.6369458128 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.1260098522 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.9458128079 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 11.5310837438 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32886699507 103% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 55.0591133005 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.3980295567 85% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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