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.

It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.

Friends play a very important role in our life. Just like parents, they are our strength and support system. We make many friends when we are young and as we grow older we make new set of friends. In my opinion, it is not a matter of more importance. We should always keep old friends who are close to our heart and also, make new friends in our life. Hence I disagree with people who think keeping old friends is better than making new friends.

Indeed old friends will always be close to us. They have known us for a very long period of time and they know us well - they know how we behave or react, what are our emotions and ideas, what are our likes and dislikes. Also, we can always trust them and look up to them when we are in a very difficult situation. For example, I have a very close friend from school. Starting from my elementary school we were the best friends and she is the only person in my life who I can call and talk or ask for any advice at any time of the day , without any hesitation. Though our paths were different and now we live in different countries, we always call and talk to each other and talking to her relaxes my mind and refreshes me.

However, there are many old friends who we will lose contact after some time and we make new friends in their place in the course of time. We will learn a lot of new things from these new friends; they might have a different culture or may be from a different place or have a very different ideology. We also learn to interact with new people which will give us new experiences and become open-mindedness. For instance, when I went to my higher studies in a different country, initially I didn't know anybody there. Slowly, I made a number of friends who were very helpful and they helped to understand culture and etiquette of that country. Some of these friends have always stayed with me and even now , after 10 years, we still contact each other and share our feelings and experiences.

To conclude, in my opinion, all friends are equally good, be it our old friends or new friends. We should be able to understand true and real friendship and maintain it.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, look, may, so, still, well, for example, for instance, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 13.8261648746 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 43.0788530466 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => 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: 1806.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 416.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.34134615385 4.8611393121 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3235137434 2.67179642975 87% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454326923077 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 553.5 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1794756821 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.0 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8095238095 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.47619047619 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.5376344086 163% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200714316489 0.236089414692 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.090052685508 0.076458572812 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127659076108 0.0737576698707 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211307222644 0.150856017488 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.189202031258 0.0645574589148 293% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.9 11.7677419355 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 77.57 58.1214874552 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.89 10.9000537634 72% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.44 8.01818996416 80% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 86.8835125448 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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