What are advantages and disadvantages of watching TV?
In recent years, television has become popular in the most parts of the world. As a result, everyone has an easy access to a TV set or even their mobile phone serves many TV channels. Undoubtedly, this may have a significant impact on the development of the youth. This trend would create certain benefits but there still exists also some undeniable drawbacks.
On the one hand, it is clearly that watching TV would bring about several positive aspects. First of all, local citizens have an additional resource of useful information by watching broadcasted programmes. For instance, they can learn about natures, sciences or politics from documentaries series, so they may see the complex relationships of life in dramas. Another reason is that television would help people feel less lonely, Psychologists coined the term "social surrogate" to explain how television can fill the shoes of absent friends or family and in one study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, researchers found that people who watch a favorite TV show report feeling less lonely during the show.
On the other hand, there are some obvious disadvantages that would rise. First, we must absolutely agree that television could cause an enormous damage to physical and mental well-being. According to some studies, it has shown that there is a correlation between watching television and obesity. Besides, if people spend more than 3 hours per day for watching TV, it can also them contribute to sleep difficulties, behavior problems, lower grades and other health issues. Second, it will be taken a wide range of budget time because watching television fills the time a person might have spent doing important, enriching things like interacting socially with other human beings, being physically active, discovering the outdoors, reading, using one's own imagination, or accomplishing other things like working, etc.
In conclusion, there are various merits to watch television regarding improved resource of useful information and less lonely feeling. However, the downsides would emerge consequently in terms of the damage for health and waste of time.
- Children should always follow their parents' advice. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? 73
- Do the advantages of using networks at work outweigh the disadvantages? 84
- young people should spend more time on cultural activities such as music and theatre and less time on sport. how far do you agree with this statement? 73
- Do the advantages of having closed circuit television outweigh the disadvantages 56
- Stress is now a major problem in many countries around the world What are some of the factors in modern society that cause this stress and how can we reduce it 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 106, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'easy access'.
Suggestion: easy access
...of the world. As a result, everyone has an easy access to a TV set or even their mobile phone ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 134, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'enormous damage'.
Suggestion: enormous damage
...utely agree that television could cause an enormous damage to physical and mental well-being. Acco...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, still, well, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1829.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 339.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39528023599 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89343392323 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65191740413 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 506.74238477 111% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 90.3042757693 49.4020404114 183% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.933333333 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.2 7.06120827912 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.163764129706 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0531888107625 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0512447558587 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0893460392882 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302193902615 0.056905535591 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
---------------------
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.