Tips
Some useful words and sentences
when your graph going up
- increase – increases – increased
- incline – inclines – inclined
- rise – rises – rose – risen
- grow – grows – grew – grown
- go up – goes up – went up – gone up
- an upward trend
when your graph is going down
- decrease – decreases – decreased
- decline – declines – declined
- fall – falls – fell – fallen
- go down – goes down – went down – gone down
- plummet – plummets – plummeted
- drop – drops – dropped
- dip – dips – dipped
- a downward trend
when the graph is neither going up nor drown and showing constant position
- remain / remains / remained constant (at)
- stabilize – stabilizes – stabilized (at)
- level / levels / leveled off (at)
when the graph shows up and down trend going in a same direction
- fluctuate – fluctuates – fluctuated – fluctuation
when the graph reaches at the highest top
peak – peaks – peaked
reach / reaches / reached a peak
Describing the time period
- over the past 4 years
- in 5 years time
- in the coming year
- in the 20th century
- a year ago
- since 2000
- over the next decade / week / year
- between 1980 to 2000
- recently
- for the last 10 years
- for the first 3 years
- last winter
- from 2010 to 2019
- from 1990 till present day