With the development of transportation technology and the Internet, encountering new people and making new friends is easer than ever. Some people claim that making new friends is more important than keeping the old ones. I do not agree with that. In my view, both new friends and old friends play an indispensable part in our life and it is a rigid approach to say one outweighs the other.
New friends can help us better adjust to new environments and from them we can learn something new. For example, last summer I went to Tianjin for a trip. I had never been there before. Lucky me, I met a guy named Jason on the way and he is a local. We hit off right away and became friends. He told me a lot about the city: their culture, traditions and their life there. He even introduced his friends to me and we eat out together in some of his favorite restaurants-to introduce some local cuisine to me. Thanks to his help, I had a good time in such an unfamiliar place and learnt so many things about it. In such case, new friends can do what old friends cannot do.
Old friends have spent years with us and we have a friendship that has been tested by time. When we are in trouble, they will come and help without hesitation. Three years ago, I was laid up with influenza and it really caught me off guard. I couldn’t attend the classes and I had nothing to do but stay in bed all day. Knowing that, my old friend Tom (we had known each other since childhood) pulled out all the stops to help me in every way. He made chicken soup for me and shared his notes taken in class with me. With his help, I got well in just three weeks, much sooner than what I had expected and I managed to catch up with my classmates. My new friends also came to visit me and encouraged me, and I appreciated that. They, however, did not spend as much time with me.
Since new friends and old friends are helpful to us in different ways, there is no need to prize one over another. What we should do is to make new friends and maintain the old ones at the same time, which is not a difficult task, would you not say so?
- TPO5_ Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment-doing things they like to do-rather than doing things they should do. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 70
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 75
- TPO-06 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 808, Rule ID: CONFUSION_OF_OUR_OUT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'our'?
Suggestion: our
...introduced his friends to me and we eat out together in some of his favorite restau...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, really, so, then, well, for example, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 13.8261648746 203% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 87.0 43.0788530466 202% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 52.1666666667 134% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2447.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 579.0 407.700716846 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.22625215889 4.8611393121 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90534594407 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31364411102 2.67179642975 87% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 212.727598566 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493955094991 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 741.6 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 22.0 9.59856630824 229% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 36.0 20.6003584229 175% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.781637931 48.9658058833 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 67.9722222222 100.406767564 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0833333333 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.11111111111 5.45110844103 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 11.8709677419 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88709677419 246% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295251469535 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0763114853407 0.076458572812 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121256824708 0.0737576698707 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.235499818951 0.150856017488 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.1440010104 0.0645574589148 223% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 6.5 11.7677419355 55% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 80.62 58.1214874552 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.0 10.1575268817 59% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 6.96 10.9000537634 64% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.42 8.01818996416 80% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 86.8835125448 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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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