Graphs and diagrams 3

Graphs show how numbers increase or decrease. The nouns increase and decrease. The nouns increase and decrease have the stress on the first syllable, but the verbs have the stress on the second syllable.

 

Numbers can also be to rise or grow and fall, drop or decline. The nouns "rises, growth, fall, drop, and decline, like increase and decrease" are followed by "in" (to explain what is rising) or "of" (to explain the size of the change), e.g. a rise of 10% in hte number of cars. Other verbs used about growth include "double,soar,multiply,appreciate and exceed."

 

slightly more than 

considerably,significantly

substantially more than

 

twice as large as 

ten times as fast as

 

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