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.
Friends are a very important part of our lives. They are the people which we will talk about all sort of subjects, from sports to serious one. Some people would believe that making new friends is very important; others would disagree. In my view, it is more important to keep our old friends for two important reasons.
The main reason is that old friends will last forever in our lives. In order to create a strong relationship with friends, time is a crucial variable. There are a lot people that we met in our childhood, but the ones which we stay in touch will probably become the most influential people in our lives. For example, I have two friends of mine and they are called John and Peter. I know them since I was a child. Indeed, one of the first memories that I have are playing with them in my old school. Moreover, I have never stopped talking with them and they are my best friends after twenty five years. Although we live now in separate cities, when we come back in holidays, we are always hanging out together. Also, we have a group on Whatsapp that we talked almost every day about our lives. Likewise, they send to me a very pretty message wishing good luck for my TOEFL exam today. This people clearly demonstrated that old friends are very important to maintain.
Another reason is that old friends are reliable. Considering a person as a friend is a very thick line. We can talk to someone for two or three hours in a bar and consider a friend, but also we can know someone for a long time but never considered a real friend. For instance, I remember when I was in college and I met a guy in an engineering conference. His name was Fabio and he presented a very interesting project about autonomous airplanes and drones. On the next day, I accidentally found Fabio drinking a beer in the college's bar. I seated next to him and we started discussing about the presentation. We talked a long time and I took Fabio's phone number. After some weeks, I called Fabio to go to a nearby pub and then he presented to me a new innovative project that he was working with and asked if I could borrow five hundred dollar to help him. As I'm already considering Fabio a friend of mine I give the money without hesitation. So, Fabio disappeared on the next week, I tried to call him but he did not answered me. One day, another friend of mine, told me a very similar history about the same person and we realized that he stole our money and there is not a new project. Also the company that he told us did not even exist. This experience taught me that old friends could be better to our life than new ones.
In sum, though some may belive that making new friends is better, I guarantee that keeping the old ones are the more important. Not only they could be present in almost our entire lives but also they are more reliable. Everyone should work to maintain old friends than to concern about making new ones.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I'm
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Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'answer'
Suggestion: answer
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, likewise, may, moreover, so, then, for example, for instance, sort of, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 86.0 43.0788530466 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2385.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 543.0 407.700716846 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.39226519337 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39035688755 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 212.727598566 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469613259669 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 751.5 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.6003584229 155% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.5133579212 48.9658058833 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.53125 100.406767564 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.96875 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21875 5.45110844103 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 23.0 11.8709677419 194% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171080032821 0.236089414692 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0543929040244 0.076458572812 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590348283974 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135916868272 0.150856017488 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0466670385012 0.0645574589148 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.7 11.7677419355 65% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 58.1214874552 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 7.89 10.9000537634 72% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.87 8.01818996416 86% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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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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.