Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Nowadays, it is commonly accepted that old friends not only are the most important part of our happy memories, but also they play a substantial positive role during problems for us. Contrary to this popular belief, there are still those who argue that today people who have the ability to make new friends easily find a better opportunity for a successful and happy life. Today make a relationship with powerful and wealthy people is an important element to obtain good job with high salary. However, I, to a great extent, agree with this idea that it is important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.

First and foremost, this is our old friends who stand on our side during bad happens. For example, five years ago, I had a big failure in my business. I was close to losing everything I owned. Nonetheless, none of my co-workers who I really count on them did not help me at this time. They left me behind easily. However, some of my high school friends assisted me by browsing some money and finding a new job for me.

Another significant fact that should be taken into consideration is that our old friends are solid ones which we can get advice from them. When you know someones for a long time, you have enough time to testify their truth. Therefore, you can be sure about their eligibility to share your concern and issues with them. For example, last year I have a serious disagreement with my husband, and I could not speak about it with my family. However, my friend Sara that I know her for more than 20 years was very helpful to solve our problem.

Finally, yet importantly, people who do not save their old friendship always feeling alone. Short-term friendships usually shape for a purpose other than a friendly relationship. For instance for business aims. In these types of relationships people just looking for their own benefits and try to take advantage of this relationship. They do not think about you or your benefits. As a result, having a lot of friends cannot provide the sense of belonging and well-being.

On the basis of the reasons that were mentioned above, I am convinced that keeping old friendships is more important than find new friends. Because of old friends are who support us during hard times, and they are confident people to sharing our mystery with them, and they give us the sense of belonging which is essential for a happy life.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, nonetheless, really, so, still, therefore, well, for example, for instance, you know, as a result, to a great extent

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 68.0 43.0788530466 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 425.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66352941176 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55550860328 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548235294118 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8129260864 48.9658058833 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.1739130435 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4782608696 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.04347826087 5.45110844103 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2556617487 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0766870566056 0.076458572812 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0950755943815 0.0737576698707 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150883075066 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768384633525 0.0645574589148 119% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 11.7677419355 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 10.9000537634 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 86.8835125448 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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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