(Writing Task 1) Useful Language
(Writing Task 1) Useful Language
DEGREES OF CHANGES
2. Other techniques.
- Relative clauses
Eg :
+ A growth of 2 million dollars was observed in this figure which
amounted to 7.5 billion dollars in 2008.
+ Specifically, bicycles and motorbikes saw figures declining by
approximately 1 billion, whereas the remaining three transportation
modes experienced an upward trend, most notable of which is the
roughly 10 billion rise in railways’ covered kilometers.
- Inversion
Eg :
+ While bicycles and motorbike passenger kilometers hover around
the 4 million mark, roughly tenfold was that of buses and
railways in both 1990 and 2000, which contributed to nearly half
of the total covered kilometers as mentioned in the paragraph.
+ Similarly significant was the rate of decline in turnover of B
company.
- Passive voice
Eg :
+ Approximately 8 billion dollars was disbursed in health studies in
1980
+ By contrast, such immediate needs as accomodation and food home
were financially prioritized by lower education level families.
- Comparison language :
Eg :
+ General Science was the least prioritized field of research in the US
throughout the years.
+ …, receiving 2 million dollars more than other fields.
+ Generally, the higher the education level a family had, the more
financial emphasis they placed on non-essential expenditures and
long-term investment, notwithstanding a few exceptions.
- Participles (V-ing / V-II)
Eg :
+ Receiving an unchanged amount of only 2.5 million dollars from
1980 to 1994
+ General Science was the least prioritized field of research in the US
throughout the years.
+ At the outset, it had the second highest level of turnover, but
ended in the last place, having suffered a significant drop in sales
revenue.
- Use structure “With S V-ing/V-ed" to extend the sentences
- Diversify the structure of “verb - advs"; “adj - nouns"
- Complex sentence
Eg : By 2030, significant more computers will drive to work, reaching
almost 9 million of them, and the figure for train users is also predicted to
observe a twofold growth (compared with the initial figure), to nearly 5
million
- Prediction language
Eg : Buses are predicted to become the least popular choice, with only 3
million daily users, a decline of around one thousand travelers.
- Vary subjects
Eg : While the numbers of people who use car will grow remarkably, an
even faster growth rate may be recorded for train passengers.
3. Body development.
- Step 1 : List information
- Step 2 : Describe changes
- Step 3 : Compare
4. Overview comprehensiveness.
- General trend (Increase >< Decrease/Correlation/Plateau/Fluctuation)
- Degree (increase/decrease)
- Ranking/Order