TPO 49 Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends

A controversial debate which is often raised about the kind of friendship which makes us happy. Some groups of people hold the view new friends are the ones who make us content. However, the other groups may take an opposite point and believe that old friends in spite of being small in number, they are more important. From my vantage point, I concur with the latter groups and believe that old friends are the ones whom we count on. In the following paragraph, I will elaborate on my viewpoint through three major reasons.

The first exquisite point to be mentioned is that close friends are the trustworthy ones. A close friend is a person that you can count on both in happy moments and sad moments. Apparently, Many new friend are around when you don't need them. However, when you are most in need for them, they disappear. A vivid example can be given to shed light on what was elaborated above is the injury I had two months ago during a football game. Astonishingly, non of my new friend called which made me suspicious if that is really called friendship.

The second reason which deserves some words here is that old friends are the ones who keep a secret. There is always this little secret in a person's heart to seek for advice. Many friends pretend that they care about you, thus they encourage you to talk about thing that is confidential. However, the moment they are out of your place it become known for everybody. For instance, during my education at college, I failed in one of the subjects and told a close friend of mine about the difficulties I'am facing. but, After couple of days, everybody in my class knew about the failing subject.

Although the aforementioned reasons are the first ones which cross the mind at a glance, they are by no means the only reasons available. In fact, there is another subtle point which must be born in mind. The noteworthy refreshing intelligible statistics, revealed by a recent research published in the American sociology Journal, the study revealed that
old friend when compared to old friends were more reliable, helpful, and supportive. The study was done among 120 students from different universities to avoid any bias.

To wrap up, contemplating all aforementioned reasons, one soon realizes that old friends when compared to new friends can hold a secret. Moreover, they are intimate, and caring.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: small
...ieve that old friends in spite of being small in number, they are more important. From my vanta...
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...ly, Many new friend are around when you dont need them. However, when you are most i...
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Suggestion: persons'; person's
...There is always this little secret in a persons heart to seek for advice. Many friends ...
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Message: Did you mean 'becomes'?
Suggestion: becomes
...he moment they are out of your place it become known for everybody. For instance, dur...
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Suggestion: But
...mine about the difficulties Iam facing. but, After couple of days, everybody in my ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, really, second, so, thus, for instance, in fact, kind of, in spite of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.0286738351 209% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1968.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 409.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81173594132 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59722156666 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557457212714 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 10.0 3.08781362007 324% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6393953475 48.9658058833 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5652173913 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7826086957 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26086956522 5.45110844103 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15131661319 0.236089414692 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0436691857057 0.076458572812 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356734436981 0.0737576698707 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0732223427159 0.150856017488 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460289844857 0.0645574589148 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.32 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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