WRITING: COMPARING AND GROUPING INFORMATION

Why is it important to group and Summarizing charts always involves making

compare information?
comparisons. Some diagrams also requires
comparisons, particularly if you have to describe
stages or have more than one piece of visual
materials: Part of the task of organizing your
answer involves deciding how to categorise or
group the information you need to compare.

Comparing information
You need to make sure you can form comparative and superlative adjectives and use
expressions such as more/less … than; the same as…; as…as; the second/third most;
Twice, three times, etc. You may need to use these expressions in some long noun phrases ,
for example:
The most
The second most popular tourist destination.
The least

1. Fill in the gaps 1-9 the summary of the chart below and on the next page. For some of
the graphs, there is a word in brackets to help you.
2. Change the noun phrase into comparative phrases, as in example.

 There are linkers that signal a comparison or contrast. The most useful ones are
while, whereas, although, however, similar(ly), unlike, equally, both/neither,
compared to, in contrast with, different (from), the same (as).

3. Complete sentences 1-6, which are based on the table below, by using a comparative
or superlative adjective, a comparative expression, or a linker in each gap