The chart shows the percentage of their food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals in different years. The graph shows the number of meals eaten in fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants

The pie charts illustrated

Use synonyms

food

Correct article usage

the food

show examples

budget

Use synonyms

ratio between dining out and home cooking the typical families spent in four different years from 1970 to 2000 with ten years gap. The ratio had grown progressively in

favor

Change the spelling

favour

show examples

of dining out in that period of time. The family had spent five times more on

restaurant

Use synonyms

meals

Use synonyms

in 2000 than they did in 1970. In 2000, half of the

budget

Use synonyms

had been spent on

restaurant

Use synonyms

meals

Use synonyms

while

Linking Words

only 10%

were

Correct subject-verb agreement

was

show examples

spent on

it

Correct pronoun usage

them

show examples

in 1970.

While

Linking Words

the eating out

budget

Use synonyms

portion increased by 5% and 15% compared

from

Change preposition

to

show examples

the previous decade in 1980 and 2000, respectively, the significant increasement happened in 1990. The

budget

Use synonyms

had raised by 20% from the previous decade.

While

Linking Words

the pie chart depicted the

food

Use synonyms

budget

Use synonyms

comparison between dining out and eating at home, the line graph represented the

number

Use synonyms

of

meals

Use synonyms

per

year

Use synonyms

of

dinning

Correct your spelling

dining

show examples

out between the same period of time and the same 10 years gap. It specifically compared

between

Change preposition

apply

show examples

the

number

Use synonyms

of fast

food

Use synonyms

meals

Use synonyms

eaten per

year

Use synonyms

and the

number

Use synonyms

of sit-down

restaurant

Use synonyms

meals

Use synonyms

eaten per

year

Use synonyms

, as indicated by

solid

Add an article

a solid

the solid

show examples

line and segmented line, respectively. In 1970, the

number

Use synonyms

was the same between

of

Change preposition

apply

show examples

fast

food

Use synonyms

and of

sit-down

Add an article

a sit-down

show examples

Use synonyms

restaurant

Fix the agreement mistake

restaurants

show examples

, which was 40

meals

Use synonyms

eaten per

year

Use synonyms

. Both numbers increased steadily but the

number

Use synonyms

of fast

food

Use synonyms

meal per

year

Use synonyms

were always bigger from 1970 until the middle of 1980

,

Remove the comma

apply

show examples

when both numbers became equal again. From that

year

Use synonyms

onward until 2000, the

number

Use synonyms

of sit-down

restaurant

Use synonyms

meals

Use synonyms

had increased significantly and had never been surpassed by the

number

Use synonyms

of fast

food

Use synonyms

meals

Use synonyms

which had been increasing

also

Linking Words

but not that fast.