You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The two-line graphs display people using

a

Correct article usage

apply

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household

appliance

Fix the agreement mistake

appliances

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for washing clothes, preparing food, and cleaning and the other graph shows

time

spent using them to carry out the required

household

activities

in a country from 1920 to 2019.

Overall

, owning appliances in 1920 seems to be very low , especially refrigerators, but over a period of

time

owning them gradually grew and seems to

be

Verb problem

have

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reached its top mainly with refrigerators from 1980 to 2019 which was way low compared to

a washing

Correct the article-noun agreement

washing machines

a washing machine

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machines

, and

vacuum

cleaners

in 1920.

Along with

this

time

spent on housework gradually decreased from 1920 to 2019. In 1920 purchasing electric appliances was below 50% especially owning fridges was below 10%.

Whereas

washing

machines

and

vacuum

cleaners

are as close to around 30 and 40%. The

time

spent on

household

activities

was in and around 50%. But these steadily decrease over the

time

period from 1920 to 1960.

This

was

due to

the fact that owning appliances surged from 1940. Between 1940 and 2000 owning fridges were sky rocketed above 50% in 1940 and reached almost 90% in 1960.

Whereas

washing

machines

and

vacuum

cleaners

were steadily increasing between the approximate range of 50 to 80%.

As a result

, a sudden drop in

time

spent on

household

activities

was seen.

Then

in the following years washing

machines

saw a slight drop and increase reaching around 75% in 2019.

In contrast

, a steady increase was seen in

vacuum

cleaners

till 1980 and

then

both refrigerators and

cleaners

reached 100% by 2000 and continued to be the same till 2019.

Also

, the effect of

time

taken to carry out

household

activities

was decreasing consistently reaching 20% in 1969 and

then

a marginal decrease between 20 to 10% over the

time

period of 1980 to 2019.