TPO-03 - Independent Writing Task 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.

Is it better to keep one’s old friends, try to maintain a connection to them, or instead, seek out new people, meet new faces, and eventually, begin a new adventure? When this question is put in that kind of perspective, it is clear what the answer is going to be: One needs to take courage and worry a little less, instead, opting for the unchareted uknown.

There are many reasons why one should search for new friends. Perhaps the most obvious reason is to establish new links. When one meets a new person, and ultimately befriends said person, he or she has opened a door to new experiences. People are of various backgrounds, and many of them have a lot of potential and have a lot to offer. One can learn from such people, understand their perspective, and in doing so grasp a better understanding of the world. Making a new friend means getting access to a set of whole new experiences. To come to share their understanding of a situation, many times a dire one, without having to go through it yourself, is truely something to cherish.

However, making new friends is not as easy as keeping your old friends. While one would need to spend considerable time with an old firend to maintain the relationship, to befriend someone new, would take even more time but also would require one to develop certain skills. These social skills allow one to easily approach another person for a friendship offer albeit many times intimately, and not in a direct way. This set of skills is not easy to come by, yet it is very important and rather useful. That is why trying to make new friends can additionally help a person develop his or her social skills.

Speaking from experience, some of my best friends have been people that I initially had no intention to even approach let alone befriend. But these people, whom I did not even consider the thought of befriending, were most of the times in many ways better than my old friends. Because they opened up whole new opportunities for me by simply sharing their perspectives and experiences with me. Experiences that my the select few of my friends did not posses. This in turn led me to become a more complete person, whereas clinging to only my old friends, would have never obtained the same results.

In conclusion, trying new experiences is always a worthy struggle. Among them, perhaps trying to make new friends and accomodating one’s self in new situations, arising from those friendships, is perhaps some of the most valuable and rewarding struggles to take upon one’s self. Not letting one’s self remain in a niche place with only a handful of old friends.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 400, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a direct way" with adverb for "direct"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, so, whereas, while, in conclusion, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2185.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 460.0 407.700716846 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72894846696 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517391304348 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.86738351254 428% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4236910522 48.9658058833 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3181818182 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9090909091 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.81818181818 5.45110844103 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => 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: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18599543684 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.064959185052 0.076458572812 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691941375327 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107010914545 0.150856017488 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0250382795018 0.0645574589148 39% => 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: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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