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    The document discusses prepositions used to describe time and numbers in graphs and data reports. It provides examples of prepositions like "from...to" to describe movement, "at" to describe a state, and "by" or "to" to describe changes between points. It also gives guidelines for reporting data using phrases like "in ___, the proportion/percentage of ___ was ___" and describing trends as increasing, decreasing, or showing an adjective change. Comparisons can be made by noting similar or opposite patterns across different data sets.

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    The document discusses prepositions used to describe time and numbers in graphs and data reports. It provides examples of prepositions like "from...to" to describe movement, "at" to describe a state, and "by" or "to" to describe changes between points. It also gives guidelines for reporting data using phrases like "in ___, the proportion/percentage of ___ was ___" and describing trends as increasing, decreasing, or showing an adjective change. Comparisons can be made by noting similar or opposite patterns across different data sets.

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    The document discusses prepositions used to describe time and numbers in graphs and data reports. It provides examples of prepositions like "from...to" to describe movement, "at" to describe a state, and "by" or "to" to describe changes between points. It also gives guidelines for reporting data using phrases like "in ___, the proportion/percentage of ___ was ___" and describing trends as increasing, decreasing, or showing an adjective change. Comparisons can be made by noting similar or opposite patterns across different data sets.

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    Prepositions for time

    Prepositions for numbers

    • From … to: describe movement in an upward or downward direction on the graph with verbs
    such as rise

    • Begin/End/Stand + at: describe a state (not movement)

    • With nouns, use of

    • By: the amount of change between two points

    • To: change to an exact point

    Example:

    • The proportion of fast food consumed witnessed a sharp decrease from 50% to about 20%.

    • The number of cars produced in UK stood at/began at 100,000 units in 1990.

    • An increase of 5% was seen in the consumption of Pizza from 2005 to 2010.

    • The consumption of Pizza increased by 5% from 2005 to 2010.

    • The number of cars produced in UK stood at 100,000 units, after which it saw a slight decline to
    70,000 units.

    Report data:

    ∙ In …., the proportion/percentage of A + was …

    ∙ The figures for A and B were … and … respectively

    Describe trend

    ∙ A increased/decreased + adv

    ∙ There was a/an adj + N

    Make comparison

    ∙ A similar pattern was witnessed in …


    ∙ An opposite trend was seen in ….

    Overall, there was a decrease/increase in the ___ of ____, which was the result of ______ in ____. It is
    also obvious that __________

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