In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend?
It is true that the urban residents of several nations live in small one-person households in lieu of extended families. From my perspective, I believe this is overall a negative trend despite minor benefits it may bring about.
There is no doubt that this tendency has a positive effect on people. This typically spotlights that living alone leads us to a more convenient life. For those who live alone, they will have a flexible time schedule since they do not have to follow others’ rules. For instance, when people have to deal with a huge amount of workload, people living alone will stay at the office until they finish, and this is more and more convenient than going home. Furthermore, a more independent lifestyle is another benefit reaped from living alone. The less family scale, the more individuals have to tackle their daily activities, contributing to the ability to stand on their own feet.
Regardless of the minor advantages mentioned above, I believe this is a negative trend. First, living alone is more likely to make people turn into apathetic individuals. If a person lives alone, he or she will not have the capacity to connect with other people, and thus, resulting in poor interpersonal skills and less social contact. As a result, our community has become more and more insensitive. Second, living in a small-scaled family makes people less concerned about relatives. The young generation is prone to forget their root and become ‘rootlessness’. Only when living in a large-scale family, family members will have more opportunity to connect and express caring to their relatives. This helps people acknowledge where they belong to.
In conclusion, all the existing reasons provide a concrete foundation that the tendency of living in smaller households may result in a wide range of adverse effects, and thus, is a negative issue in today’s society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, may, second, so, thus, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
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: 1605.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17741935484 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96771388486 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583870967742 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7858418063 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.4117647059 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2352941176 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.70588235294 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232918879037 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0767086619891 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487067164401 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134727051816 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399509729378 0.056905535591 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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.