It has been argued that gift giving should not be encouraged, because money is often wasted on things that people do not like or want.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this?
Giving gifts on different special occasions has long been part of various societies. Nowadays, it is often argued that this practice should not be supported because money is not spent wisely on gift items. In my opinion, giving presents is important as it expresses certain feelings, and is deeply connected with culture. Also, I believe gifting some useless items or as a dowry should be condemned.
To begin with, gifts make some occasions very special, and some relations meaningful. Although people buy presents on every special day, some days are more special than others. On Women's Day, for example, to recognise the contribution of women, and to show respect and love to her, family members can gift a book, some flowers, or a jewellery item. This type of action creates strong bonds among family members. Moreover, there is a cultural aspect of giving presents. If this cultural trait is not followed, people might experience a different attitude from others. For example, when people are invited to a marriage function in India and Bangladesh, they are always expected to present something, otherwise, they feel socially excluded.
In contrast, in some countries, dowry is taken in the form of a gift. For example, in South African weddings, the groom receives a cow or goat from the bride's family, this is now commonly called a gift, but this is given as dowry. In the present day, giving such a gift should not be encouraged. Moreover, presenting useless things is pretty normal these days. During many social parties, such as birthdays, anniversaries, or weddings, there are some familiar items given by the guests, such as crockeries, bedsheets, and cheap clothes. Most often, these items are not up to the standard, so people cannot use them.
In conclusion, presenting something exceptional on a special day is a meaningful practice and this has a cultural value too. But, gifting something which cannot be used should not be promoted. Also, it is important to prohibit the system of dowry. Therefore, giving gifts is a good practice, until it is valued and treated with respect.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'brides'' or 'bride's'?
Suggestion: brides'; bride's
...e groom receives a cow or goat from the brides family, this is now commonly called a g...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => 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: 1753.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 347.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05187319885 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67753586638 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564841498559 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 0.809619238477 865% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.2506914595 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.4761904762 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5238095238 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90476190476 7.06120827912 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.67935871743 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.222360408864 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0696761115496 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062030735935 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153122958571 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695877342499 0.056905535591 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.0946893788 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 9.78957915832 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'brides'' or 'bride's'?
Suggestion: brides'; bride's
...e groom receives a cow or goat from the brides family, this is now commonly called a g...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 13.1623246493 190% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => 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: 1753.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 347.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05187319885 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67753586638 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564841498559 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 0.809619238477 865% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.2506914595 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.4761904762 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5238095238 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90476190476 7.06120827912 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.67935871743 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.222360408864 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0696761115496 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062030735935 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153122958571 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695877342499 0.056905535591 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.0946893788 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 9.78957915832 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.