Nowadays many people have access to computers and a large number of children enjoy playing video games What are the advantages and disadvantages of playing video games for children

The technological world is progressing very quickly. Nowadays many people can easily access personal computers, internet and a vast number of children enjoy playing video games. Playing video games for children has a lot of advantages but it does have some drawbacks as well.

With the technological Advancements, gaming industry has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Unlike the past when a lot of the children enjoyed outdoor games but currently the outdoor games likeness has significantly declined. These days more and more children are attracted towards video games. By playing video games children are able to solve problems quickly in their real life as video games these days are very hard and complex to play. Many researches have supported the fact that playing video games keeps the children’s mind sharp and improves their ability to pay attention. Another advantage of playing video games is that children who are so much invested in playing video games can even have a career in gaming industry. With the right support from their parents, many children have taken the gaming industry by storm and they are earning a lot of revenue as well.

Playing video games have some disadvantages as well. Many parents often complain that their children waste a lot of time on playing video games. A lot of children are stuck playing games all the time at their homes and in the process their studies starts getting affected. Another disadvantage of playing video games is children are sedentary, they aren’t playing outdoor games or doing physical activity. Physical activity holds a very important value in the children’s growth. If physical activity is not given importance it may lead to certain health issues for children.

As conclusion, playing video games for children have a lot of benefits but it does have some downsides as well.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 193, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'games'' or 'game's'?
Suggestion: games'; game's
...outdoor games but currently the outdoor games likeness has significantly declined. T...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, well

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1566.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 305.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13442622951 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60702130112 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 176.041082164 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47868852459 0.561755894193 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 476.1 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.7080104055 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.1176470588 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9411764706 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.29411764706 7.06120827912 18% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.629794838333 0.244688304435 257% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.247155222142 0.084324248473 293% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146329315816 0.0667982634062 219% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.457328620532 0.151304729494 302% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647864997891 0.056905535591 114% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 78.4519038076 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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