Sentences

for Graph Analysis

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Structure 1

Time + Agent+ Verbs+ Adverbs

From______________(name of month/year/
Dme frame) to ________________, the sales/
producDon /rate/percentage/growth/number
of_______________ (the product/agent)
(verb) increased/rose/fell/decreased/
uctuated/declined (adverb ) rapidly/
dramaDcally/sharply/moderately/steadily/
gradually/ rapidly/slightly/slowly.
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Structure 2
Time + Introductory there + is/was+ adjecDve
+noun + component
For ____________months/years/from
_________to__________, there was a slight
change/rise/fall in the sales of____________.

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Structure-3

The percentage/rate/amount/ of A is adverb+
comparaDve/superlaDve + than that of B
The percentage of women employed in non manual work Is
quite larger than that of men in those occupaDons.
Red is considerably/much/signicantly/slightly/fracDonally
more common /less popular than blue

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Structure 4

A Percentage +verb + adverb degree than B

The percentage of purchase habits which is
56.11% during holidays is considerably higher
than that of weekdays which consDtutes
31.2%.
The percentage of home rent which is 32% is
signicantly higher than other expenses.
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One Trend Comparison

The degree adjecDve Trend +Agent + verb
+agent
The most popular/common car color is white.
Tokyo has the highest amount of populaDon
among all four towns.

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Comparison ConDnues
A + Verb+ twice/half/three Dmes + as + much/
many/high/low + as + B

A is twice as common/popular/high as B.
From 1950 to 2015, the populaDon of Bombay
city incredibly increased four Dmes as much as
it was in 1950.
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Intro Sentence

Graph type+ Main verb+ Topic+ Area+ Time

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Intro Sentence Example

The table /The two pie charts compares/
present the changes of populaDon growth and
interstate migraDon in each Australian state
from 1990 to the end of 1994.

The following bar graph shows proporDon of
males and females in employment in six broad
categories.
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Introductory sentence+ general trend
sentence

The graph gives informaDon on crime cases in
three dierent categories for each 10,000
people. It seems that thea is the most
common crime among all.

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Introductory sentence+ general trend
sentence
The two pie charts show
the informaDon on
male and females arrest rates and its major
reasons in 1994. In general, females were
arrested much less frequently than males.
They were mostly arrested for public drugs
and assaults while males were arrested for a
range of reasons like alcohol problems, and
other reasons.
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How can you idenDfy important features of a
graph?

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 IdenDfy the phrases for the GT sentence

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According to the graph

It is clearly seen that
It seems that
A close look at the graph shows that

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Use the following joining words in the second

paragraph
Set A

Firstly
Secondly
Thirdly
Finally

Set B
To begin with
Next
Aaer that
Then
Finally

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Data sentence
For example,
For instance

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Contrast

But,
However,
On the other hand,
In contrast,

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Same trend
Similarly

Likewise

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For approximaDon
Around
About
almost

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QuesDon on populaDon growth:

The bar graph shows the changes of amount
in populaDon in London, Mexico city, Bombay
and Tokyo in four dierent years.

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What is the other way to write it?

The bar graph compares the amount of

populaDon of London, Mexico, Bombay and
Tokyo in four dierent years. According to the
graph, London had the lowest and the Tokyo
had the highest populaDon growth in the
given Dme.
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It is clearly evident that Tokyo experienced
the highest amount of populaDon growth.
From 1950 to 2015, the populaDon incredibly
increased four Dmes as much as it was in
1950.

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PopulaDon growth graph (part)

During the middle of the last century, all four
towns had less than 10 millions which grew to
cross 15 millions for all towns except London.
London sDll remained below 10 millions in
1970. In contrast, Tokyo reached near about
17 million populaDon in that year. In 2000,
Tokyo reached more than 25 million
populaDon which is the same as for Bombay.
However, London rather successfully
controlled its populaDon growth and its
populaDon stayed at the same as it was in
2000.
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Note Box




Topic: study reasons and employers' support for
dierent age groups

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 Time/Tense: Present indenite

Main trend: Young study for career while the aged
people study for interest

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 Details: age progresses- career becomes minor

reason 4 study
: under 26- 80%-career, 10%-interest
-29=70% for career and around 30%-interest
: 30-39=55%-career and 35%-interest
Upward trend aaer 40.
employees under 26- more
than 60 percent
drops for 26-29 by 10
percent.
over 49 -40 percent get
help
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