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The charts below show the proportion of people’s total spending on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1998 and 2008.

The charts below show the proportion of people’s total spending on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1998 and 2008.
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The provided bar chart
illustrate
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illustrates
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 the amount of individual spent on different products and services out of their total expense in a European country in 1998 and 2008.
Overall
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 electronic goods and clothing
remains
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remain
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 as highest spent categories and
similarly
Linking Words
, buying
newspaper
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newspapers
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 / magazines and going to
cinema
Correct article usage
the cinema
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remains
Correct subject-verb agreement
remain
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 as lowest sending in
both
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 years. In 1998, people spent most on electronic goods at 16
and
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apply
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followed by clothing at 12.
However
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,
on
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in
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 2008 these spending categories
further
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 expanded by recording an amount of 20 for electronic goods and 18 for cloths.
Amount
Correct article usage
The amount
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 of spending
for
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on
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 holidays decreased from 8 to 5 from 1998 to 2008 respectively. Eating out remained the same at 6 during
both
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 years.
Both
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 1998 and 2008
seen
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saw
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 the lowest spent in two categories Newspaper / magazine and going to cinema.
While
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 it remained lowest in
both
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 years, spending had
further
Linking Words
 reduced from 3 in 1998 to 1 in 2008.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "further".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words both with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "remains" was used 4 times.
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