# task1_memorise_addendum

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# Task 1 — Addendum: Structures from the Playbook Samples

Additions to the memorise list. Correct forms only.

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## 1. Correlative comparative ("the more X, the more Y")

**The younger the age group, the more likely they were to visit.**

Pattern: *The [comparative], the [comparative].*
- The larger the city, the higher the cost of housing.
- The longer the training, the greater the salary.

One of the highest-value complex structures available in Task 1. It compresses a whole trend into a single clause, and it reads as deliberate range rather than decoration. Worth having ready for any chart where one variable moves with another.

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## 2. Describing an anomaly — when one item breaks the pattern

**broke the overall pattern**
**the same anomaly appears here**
**do not follow this trend as neatly**
**with the exception of**
**runs counter to the general trend**
**is the outlier**

Most charts have one category that doesn't behave like the rest. Naming it explicitly is a Task Achievement marker — it shows selection and analysis rather than transcription. You already did this instinctively with Oceania's missing over-cultivation bar and with the "no clear correlation" observation on the climate table.

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## 3. Range language — for evenly distributed data

**ranging from X to Y**
**percentages ranged from 34% to 46%**
**with the other three activities between 38% and 42%**

Use when several categories cluster close together and listing each one individually would be repetitive. Solves the problem of a paragraph turning into a list.

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## 4. Small-value emphasis

**a mere 6 TWh**
**practically zero**
**just 3.2 times on average**
**appealed to only 8%**

Useful when a value is genuinely tiny — these carry the emphasis that "negligible" was doing wrongly at 3.3%.

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## 5. Age and group phrasing

**those aged between 15 and 24**
**those aged 55 and over**
**the one- to two-year-olds** (note the hanging hyphen)
**the three- to four-year-olds**
**cinema-goers** (hyphenated compound)

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## 6. Linking two sources in one task

**The accompanying table confirms this trend.**
**The same pattern appears in the second chart.**
**The table adds detail to this picture.**

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## 7. NEW FORMAT — bar chart + table in one task

The playbook's first sample is a bar chart *and* a table together, describing related data. This is a real Task 1 variant you have not yet practised.

**Structure that works:**
- Intro: paraphrase both sources in one sentence — "The bar chart and table provide data on X, together with Y."
- Overview: one combined trend covering both, not one sentence per source.
- Body 1: the first source.
- Body 2: the second source, explicitly linked back — "The accompanying table confirms this trend."

**The trap:** writing two unconnected mini-reports. The two sources are given together because they relate; the link sentence at the start of body 2 is what earns the Coherence mark.