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The two most useful grammatical structures for describing trends are:
1) Noun phrase + verb + adverb
For example,
The number of unemployed women fell significantly.
2) There + be + adjective + in + noun phrase
For example:
There was a dramatic improvement in the percentage of people in employment.
The two most useful grammatical structures for describing increases and decreases are:
1) Noun phrase + verb + adverb
For example,
The popularity of social media climbed steadily.
2) There + be + noun + in + noun phrase
For example,
There was a fluctuation in university applications.
There is now a swimming pool in the location of the old factory.
Useful vocabulary for making comparisons includes:
more
most
high (er) (est)
large (er) (est)
less
least
few (er) (est)
low (er) (est)
small (er) (est)
These words can be used to form many different sentence structures useful for making comparisons, such as.
1) More/fewer/less + noun + than
For example,
More teenagers play computer games than a sport.
2) Most/least + adjective
For example,
The most common childhood illness in 1979 was chickenpox.
3) More/less + adjective + than
For example,
Cruises were more popular than beach holidays in 2012.
4) High/low/few -er + than
For example,
A lower number of teenagers play a sport than play computer games.
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