Nowadays children mostly spend their time playing computer games rather than sports.What are the reasons for this? Is it a positive or negative development.

In recent years, the majority of children spend their time on virtual recreation activities rather than physical activities. There are numerous causes such phenomenon. While there are solid proves to say this is a positive development, it is rather oherwise.
The top reason that makes children chose video games other than sports is that devices are becoming more and more complex. Due to this constant innovation, the gaming industry is revolutionized; they have access to more sophisticated technology that can create products akin to the real world, causing children to be engrossed in games. Namely, technology has successfully developped Virtual Reality devices that enable players to truly be the characters. Moreover, the advancement in technology enables the marketing industry to thrive; hence, smart devices become more popular among children. Nowadays, almost everyone possesses a smart phone with full access to the internet. Next to that, children are exposed to smart phones to soon; thus, they soon become addicted to these devices.
While many people claim that playing video games enhances children's cognitive skills as well as their creativity, these advantages can not surpass the adverse impacts of video games to children's health. First and foremost, spending too much time exposing to the blue light-the light of the devices' screen can leads to a deficiency in eyesights, and neglecting physical activities causes many health issues. Since most chidren's gaming session take place indoor, they are shielded from natural light and lack physical movements. It is proven that lacking physical activities results in a deficiency in the immune system, cardiovascular and even the respiratory system. Secondly, video game addiction prevents children from having a proper lifestyle. Children who are addicted to video games fail to maintain a healthy routine; hence, they can be sleep deprived, malnutrition and deteriorating performances at school. Last but not least, children who choose video game over sports might have less opportunities to socialize, resulting in an inadequacy in communicating skills and anti-social symptoms.
In conclusion, spending excessive time on video games without proper physical exercises is a negative development that should be prevented.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, in conclusion, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1947.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 346.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62716763006 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87420589163 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592485549133 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 506.74238477 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2602836225 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.529411765 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3529411765 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.82352941176 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => 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: 0.243057588533 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739310786552 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666444785442 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162087207862 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0684833005213 0.056905535591 120% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 50.2224549098 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.37 12.4159519038 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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