C Linking points and arguments
The increase in house sales is due to the fact that inflation fell in 2004. At the same time, tax rate reductions were beginning to have an effect.
Joslav used an eight-point scale in the questionnaire, as opposed to1 a four-point one, by means of which he showed that attitudes covered a very wide range, in the sense that the results were spread very evenly over all eight points.
It's very difficult to interpret these data. Be that as it may2, there is some evidence of a decline in frequency. For this reason, we decided to repeat the experiment.
In addition to surveying the literature on population movements, we also reviewed work carried out on family names in five regions.
1 rather than 2 a typical academic way of saying 'although I accept that this is true'; more common in speech than in writing
Exercises
1 Choose one of the expressions in A to fill in the missing words in this feedback to a student from one of her teachers.
You have had a very good form (1) . You have done (2) …………………. work, and have also taken part in (3) social activities. Your sporting. activities may have interfered with your studies (4) …………………….. but you still managed to write (5) ……………… 5000 words for your end-of-term assignment, which, I am leased to report, was of a high standard.
2 From the point of view of meaning, which expression in each set doesn't belong, and why?
in general, by means of which, as a rule, on the whole
as regards X, as far as X is concerned, with the exception of X, with respect to X
as a whole, in addition to, for the most part, in general
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