Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to have friends who are intelligent than to have friends who have a good sense of humor.

Friends, who have great places in our lives, are important people for many reasons. They are the people where we consult with the mind when it comes or easily drool but more importantly we share our secrets with some of them. More, there have been times that we see them more than our families. Thus, choosing a friend has a great importance. There are two controversial notions about choosing a friend. Some people choose their friends based on whether they have a good sense of humor, but in my opinion intelligence is the main criterion for choosing friends and I explain the reasons of my opinion in this essay.

Personally, I believe, friends must have a similar culture and education level so they can get along well in any case. Of course, there are exceptions in our lives however, these exceptions are very rare. The reasons behind these thoughts are based on our childhood, education and career stages of us. First of all, we start to make friends since kinder garden and it continues with our education life. Also, our character and personality have been forming through these years. Furthermore, our expectations and the things we like to share with a friend changes in time. Being friends with an intelligent person has advantages and having the same sense of humor is only one of them.

Intelligent people has the ability of solving problems, creating new things in many subjects, giving advice and so on. Because of these reasons they give us the feeling of trust. I would not doubt to share a secret or resign anything to them. Trustable people are so rare to find and that is why this property makes them more special. Besides, by the advices we provide from them, we can point our lives in a better way. Also, I assume that clever people does not need to lie so in my view they are a sample of honesty. In other words, I would not hesitate to ask their real opinion/notion about anything.

In the case of sense of humor, I think intelligent people makes smarter and funnier jokes, in addition their jokes can be the one that makes you think. If someone is friends with a person just for his/her sense of humor, I believe that friendship will not last forever. Worse, that person might feel lonely. Because only funniness is not enough for a real friendship.

As a summary, my personal preference is to be friends with a smart person because I think they are the whole package.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 120, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...many subjects, giving advice and so on. Because of these reasons they give us the feeli...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, thus, well, i think, in addition, of course, first of all, in any case, in my opinion, in my view, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1983.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 424.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67688679245 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53775939005 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46187442698 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516509433962 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 618.680645161 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4251341796 48.9658058833 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.32 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.96 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 5.45110844103 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264982642872 0.236089414692 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697600586366 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0754078786124 0.0737576698707 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139634303167 0.150856017488 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0903274173472 0.0645574589148 140% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 11.7677419355 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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