Which way do you prefer to spend time: with a small number of close friends or with many friends?
Compare these two views.
Having friends is a part of socialization and they can be the most treasured people on this earth. In this context, it is often claimed that the more number of friends you have, the better it is. But I have my own reservations here.
To elaborate, those who oppose my viewpoint may feel that having few friends could be dull and that such kind of friendship may eventually turn out to be boring, monotonous and cheerless; but I look at it the other way. For instance, my friend Reena is always surrounded by a large number of friends who seem to be always gregarious, adventurous and boisterous. However, the seamy side to this façade is that she is always seen spending time on her cell phone, either planning to meet up somewhere or pacifying or clearing misunderstandings with someone or the other. Making up and breaking up are aplenty in her life. When I witness such happenings, I feel blessed to have only a handful of like-minded companions with who I can really have pleasant and cherished moments.
So, having fewer friends has many advantages. Firstly, I suffer lesser tensions and headaches. For example, we are a group of five and we have been close buddies since our school days, unlike my friend who has a lot of friends, but none who may be called “friends forever”. Secondly, our friendship has grown over the years through a lot of trust, warmth and mutual respect for one another. And lastly, there is always one voice when it comes to taking any decision and we have hardly any feelings of insecurity among us. In fact, there’s never a dull moment when all of us catch up with one another and many of my other friends and acquaintances envy our relationship.
To conclude, although a gang of friends may look envious, it is definitely the quality of friendship that goes into it that makes up the best of one’s life. Therefore, I prefer to win a few hearts rather than be popular.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 275, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...my friend Reena is always surrounded by a large number of friends who seem to be always gregariou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, for instance, i feel, in fact, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 10.4138276553 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 24.0651302605 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => 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: 1594.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 339.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70206489676 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81483019529 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569321533923 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 486.0 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.7142408228 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.625 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1875 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0625 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197264108619 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630477109612 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540355165697 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114081651056 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0299384252345 0.056905535591 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.0946893788 86% => 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: 9.98 12.4159519038 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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.