Posted by pakguru on May 21st, 2016 | 5 responses | collocation, EAP, grammar, GTC, IELTS, line graphs, prepositions, Task 1, vocabulary, writing
In general, the 6pm news reached its peak for almost 5 million viewers per day in the first month.
This is actually quite communicative and in IELTS this sentence might give you a satisfactory score for TA. However, the language problems would leave you with a much lower score for GRA and for CC.
So, if you really are making a general statement, do this:
If you want to mention detail, then do this:
Pay careful attention to this pattern:
something + reached a peak (+ of + value x) (+ time expression)
If you don’t believe me, check out these examples!
And whatever you do, don’t write ‘reached the peak‘! That applies to climbers only, where ‘the‘ refers to the mountain that they happen to be climbing at the time!
Thanks tutor …its really helpful
Junarto’s salary reached a peak of Rp 500 millions per month in his 50’s.
Nice. You’ll hate me for this. Rp = Rupiah, which is an irregular noun. It doesn’t have an ‘s’ when it’s plural. Here it is plural and it is the main noun in the noun phrase. Other nouns in this noun phrase should not be pluralised:
500 million Rupiah = Rp 500 million
Hmm… interesting. What about USD or Pound, are they the same?
Woopss… please ignore the last message..