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The pie charts show the spending habits of people in UK in 1971 and 2001. Write a report to a university lecturer describing the data.

The pie charts show the spending habits of people in UK in 1971 and 2001. Write a report to a university lecturer describing the data.
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The pie charts
comprise of
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show
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 British citizen expenditure in two different years which are 1971 and 2001.
Overall
, in 1971, most
people
 in the UK
like
Wrong verb form
liked
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 to
spent
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spend
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their money on
food
, which is opposed to their behaviour 3 decades later which
is
Unnecessary verb
apply
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in 2001,
people
tend
Wrong verb form
tended
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 to
spent
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spend
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 their salary by
bought
Wrong verb form
buying
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cars
.
In addition
, in the prior period
given
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apply
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(
1971)
Add a comma
1971),
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 only a
little
Correct word choice
small
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 portion of
people
 spent
out
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apply
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their money on computers. Meanwhile in 2001, buying a book
is
Unnecessary verb
apply
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seemingly became unpopular those days. In 1971,
Food
 became the most spent item with 44% which is
a
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apply
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half of
percentage
Correct article usage
the percentage
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 of
people
 spent on bought
cars
. Citizen expenditure on
cars
 rate is more than twice of petrol being bought back
then
 in 1971, which is 10%. Closely followed by furniture which has the
equal
Correct word choice
same
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 amount rate as restaurants for 7% and books for 6%. The least spending of
people
 in the UK is on computers, with the fact that these things may be unpopular in that year. As opposed to what happened in 2001,
people
 mostly spent their salary on
cars
following
Wrong verb form
followed
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with
Change preposition
by
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 the huge difference rate spent
in
Change preposition
on
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food
 and restaurants by 29%, which
are
Correct subject-verb agreement
is
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 14%. Computer
spent is
Wrong verb form
spending
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 rapidly rose from 2% in 1971 to 12% in 2001.
On the other hand
,
along with
 the
increased
Replace the word
increase
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 from
cars
 and
computer
Fix the agreement mistake
computers
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 spent, there are the remaining categories
people
Change preposition
of people
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 least spent with, which are furniture,
food
, and books for 8%, 8%, and 1% respectively.
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