It has been argued that giving gifts to friends and family 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?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
It is common between people to gift each other on holidays or special occasions; however, while this process is enjoyable for many of them, some of them believe it to be a waste of money. They argue that this is because gifts mostly do not meet the expectations of those who receive them. I partly agree with this argument because of the following reasons.
On the one hand, there is a stereotype that the more expensive a gift is, the more valuable it should be for a receiver. With many people believe in that, they make their choices of gifts based on the price tags. So, a person that will receive one is likely to dislike it. That is why everyone should always be thoughtful, picking something for their loved ones not to make them feel disappointed or embarrassed. For example, once my friend presented me with an enormously expensive crystal duck that, to me, was ugly and not worth the money she had spent on it.
Meanwhile, some gifts people wish to receive may be quite costly, which does not matter when this is the only thing that will make them happy. In this case, the gift must reach its primary goal - to bring a smile on someone's face. For example, my younger sister, Annie, was dreaming of a new Barbie doll and was frustrated because her female classmate had one and did not let Annie play with it. Despite its high price, $35, parents decided to buy the doll for Annie, and since then, she has been smiling every day. Nothing is more precious for parents than the happiness of their child.
To conclude, despite the high price of a gift may become a concern for someone, they should always be attentive to the wishes of their families and friends so that they can buy appropriate gifts. Not every gift should be expensive, but if it is valuable for its receiver, the former should not matter.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, then, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 24.0651302605 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1491.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 328.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.54573170732 5.12529762239 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31043829385 2.80592935109 82% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551829268293 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 460.8 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0103509969 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8666666667 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4 7.06120827912 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.242590214712 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841720919769 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403684361479 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156452292702 0.151304729494 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0423569997097 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.0946893788 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 50.2224549098 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.11 12.4159519038 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.58950901804 85% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 78.4519038076 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 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.