Some people prefer to play team sports, while others prefer to play individual sports. Discuss the advantages of each. Then indicate which you prefer and why.

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Some people prefer to play team sports, while others prefer to play individual sports. Discuss the advantages of each. Then indicate which you prefer and why.

Submitted by sophy on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 06:38

When I was 6, I used to practice martial art and swimming-pool until the age of 17. They were both individual sports, therefore I definitively prefer individual sports than team sports. I think there are more advantages for the first one than the second one.

Firstly, when you practice individual sport, you don’t have the pressure you could find in a team. Indeed, there might be some misunderstanding between players because of the teamwork. Moreover, it is only under my responsibility if I lost or win a competition. For example, I remember when I was 6 my first competitions in karate : I t...

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Score: 23 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 359 350
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No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.353 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.351 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.816 2.4
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Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.609 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.256 7.5
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Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.507 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.194 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5

Sophy I did enjoy you writing style. Toelf essays are expected to have around 350 words, yours has 358. You rock! (I have dome difficuties in achieving this goal XD)Toelf essays are also expected to have 5 paragraphs. Yours has 4. A suggestion to that is to develop a third exemplo/reason/detail. In short, in my view your essay was very clear and well developed.