Does playing sports teach us about life?
Dating back to ancient times, our ancestors engaged themselves in various kinds of sporting activities, like Cuju, or ancient Chinese football. For thousands of years, people have never stopped playing sports. This demonstrates the importance of sport in human development. Today, modern citizens are blessed with more diversified choices of games than ever. As far as I am concerned, participating in various sports not only benefits people physically, but also teaches people lessons about life.
Above all, playing sports shows us an important truth that life is always in motion. This famous notion was first brought up by a French thinker named Voltaire. Such an idea is simple in words but deep in meaning. The globe is turning nonstop; the sun rises in the east and sets in the west day after day; rivers are flowing towards the sea; time is passing; all living creatures are growing…all these events justify Voltaire's concept. Indeed, motion is the prerequisite of life, without which all living beings would perish and the whole universe would no longer exist. Taking part in any sport, like playing basketball, swimming, diving, playing golf, or running, involves body movements and physical strength, which in turn constitutes an indispensable benefit to one's life. Health is a determinant factor in sustaining life and allowing it to continue. Playing sports is an effective way of keeping people healthy enough to progress smoothly in their life.
In addition, people are taught to cooperate well with others while participating in team sporting events. Having cooperative interactions with others is also of essential importance to one's career life. In a sports team, all members share a common goal and strive to combat the opposite side. It is in the process of such an endeavor that people realize the power of unity. Although all members are playing different roles in a match, they are embracing the same dream to win. Only when each is functioning well in their role and cooperating effectively with others can the team gain the final victory. The essence of teamwork is reflected in many sporting events. Without a doubt, experiences in sports can prepare people for their career life.
Last but not least, playing sports reminds people of the importance of obeying rules and keeping to principles. There are general scoring rules for each sporting event. All players are supposed to follow these rules. Otherwise their team might suffer losses. The same is true in real life. If a person goes against the basic rules, he might face failure. Besides, human society is ruled by laws. Anyone who violates the laws will be punished.
To sum up, the significance of sports has far exceeded its primary purpose for recreation and health. As a matter of fact, playing sports is such an educational activity that it helps people both physically and spiritually. Judging from all the essential values lying within each single form of sports, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that playing sports teaches people lessons about life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, so, well, while, in addition, as a matter of fact, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2569.0 1977.66487455 130% => OK
No of words: 498.0 407.700716846 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15863453815 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61349913638 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 212.727598566 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586345381526 0.524837075471 112% => OK
syllable_count: 772.2 618.680645161 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.6003584229 155% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.5468401586 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.28125 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5625 20.6045352989 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.84375 5.45110844103 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331024169729 0.236089414692 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0757094357025 0.076458572812 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0800305314645 0.0737576698707 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187749964746 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0616999066582 0.0645574589148 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 11.7677419355 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.35 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 86.8835125448 167% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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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.