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

I am of the opinion that the older we get, the more difficult the process of making new friends becomes. Based on what I can observe from adults around me, I see they tend to make fewer and fewer friends each year as they keep on with life. Thus, I believe we should prioritize keeping our good old friends over trying to be friends with people showing up later in our course of life.

As I have mentioned above, making new friends is easier said than done, especially when we get older and turn into the world of grown-ups. In fact, only children and young students seem to obtain new friends to their friend list on a regular basis since they have more time for getting to know and hanging out with others. However, for adults, we are more up to ears with work and responsibilities while making new friends truly takes a considerable amount of time and effort. As a result, rather than investing time to newly-formed friendships, it is better to spend our valuable time with precious buddies who we have known for a long time.

On the other hand, there is no doubt friends who we chose to get close to long ago have become an integral part of our life. Having known each other since childhood or university, we and our best friends have together gone through difficult stages of life when we were young, messy and immature. Thus, such friends can be considered the ones who know and understand us the most, compared to friends who we meet at a later stage when there are little chances for friends to overcome life obstacles together. Also, old friends are more likely to be willing to help us out when we are in need. This is because there is already a strong bond and a strong sense of faith that have been built up over years in the friendships. Therefore, it is more important to keep those connections strong for the sake of both sides, rather than weakening them when we try to focus on finding new relationships.

In conclusion, although I admit that it is inevitable we will occasionally become friends with new people in our life, I believe maintaining our closeness with our long-time friends is much more crucial. I feel this way because I know it will be hard to have good friends later in life and that our old friends are ones of the most important people in our life.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, therefore, thus, while, i feel, in conclusion, in fact, no doubt, as a result, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 8.0752688172 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 417.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.50119904077 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44455684376 2.67179642975 91% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489208633094 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 575.1 618.680645161 93% => 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: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 33.3683815743 48.9658058833 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.133333333 100.406767564 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8 20.6045352989 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.93333333333 5.45110844103 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23264408696 0.236089414692 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103791677709 0.076458572812 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481647207829 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173991804044 0.150856017488 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0294858488106 0.0645574589148 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 58.1214874552 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.12 10.9000537634 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 86.8835125448 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


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