This lesson is about the correct use of percent, percentage and proportion, in Task 1 essays.
Percent and percentage
Make sure you know how to use percent and percentage.
- percent comes after a number.
- percentage comes after words like the, a, this, that, etc. and is often preceded by an adjective, e.g. A high percentage of customers ….
- Both go with the preposition of
Common error!
Nearly 30 percentage of the books were new.
When writing numbers or percentages, use words up to the number ten, e.g. eight per cent, and then figures, e.g. 12 per cent. However, always write a number at the beginning of sentence in words, e.g. Twelve per cent …
Proportion
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