Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
No one can deny that there are both positive and negative aspects keeping old and new friends. If I were forced to choose, I would definitely stay along with my old companions as long as possible. It is my firm belief that the impact of ancient friends is positive for a number of reasons, and I will develop these ideas in the subsequent paragraphs.
To begin with, old friends are like our family members and very close to our heart. We can easily share our intense feelings with them without any hesitation. On top of that, they know us very well for a long time and can sometimes read our minds for fruitfully. On the other hand, it is not safe to share our feelings with the new friends as we do not discover them perfectly. In addition, we can seek help from the childhood friends when we are in trouble.
I have to admit that my opinion on this matter has been profoundly influenced by my own experience. I remember when I was in my undergraduate school, suddenly I lost my concentration on studies and failed on exams. At the same time, my family blamed me that it was totally my fault to keep myself free from studies. Therefore, I became depressed and completely broken inside. However, when I shared my situation to my old mate, she discovered that I need counselling and a little break from the daily work load. As a result, when I came back from the break, I found myself more hardworking, enthusiastic and highly energetic suitable for the undergrad level. If I had not contact with my old friend, I would not have been able to overcome the crisis.
Secondly, old and familiar companionship are loyal and faithful. If they are not trustworthy, we will not keep the friendship for long time. Moreover, having such peer will be beneficial in the long run. Drawing from my personal experience, I can relate the story of my elder brother. He has two friends from his childhood and he has started a business with them. In addition, they know each other’s choice very well and consequently, their company has run without any conflict. In contrast, this harmonious partnership might have not been possible with the new seasonal friends. It’s certainly clear to see why the influence of familiar friends are useful in a person’s career.
In light of the above-mentioned reasons, I strongly believe that longtime friendships provide us mental happiness and satisfactory outcomes. This is because we can depend on them blindly not only in our personal but also in professional life.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 673, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'contacted'.
Suggestion: contacted
...e for the undergrad level. If I had not contact with my old friend, I would not have be...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, as to, in addition, in contrast, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 72.0 43.0788530466 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2080.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 436.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77064220183 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81300396919 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 212.727598566 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543577981651 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.2680351432 48.9658058833 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 83.2 100.406767564 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.44 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.48 5.45110844103 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145784105044 0.236089414692 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0454609057022 0.076458572812 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0521000735765 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0844050685411 0.150856017488 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532140284589 0.0645574589148 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 11.7677419355 83% => 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: 10.09 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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