Goods Transported in the UK (1974–2002)

The response gives an overview and covers all four modes, but some detail is vague and pipeline starts too high at around 10 million tonnes. Water’s “about 20 million” describes a gain, not its total volume; reporting its endpoints would make that comparison clearer. Rail’s intervening falls are also insufficiently developed.

Ideas are arranged in a logical order from road to water to rail to pipeline, but cohesion is sometimes mechanical or inaccurate, as when As a result is used for a comparison, and referencing like those transportations is repetitive.

There is adequate vocabulary for trends and quantities, but expressions such as “unveiled positive trends”, “fluctuation trend” and “promising improvement” are awkward or evaluative. “Land transportation” does not distinguish road from rail, and “tones” misspells the weight unit.

The response attempts relative clauses and time references, but control is uneven. The road sentence lacks a clear verb linking its endpoints, “until in 1994” combines incompatible prepositions, and the final “which remained” has no clear antecedent for the quantity that stayed level.

All four modes are covered, with broadly reasonable starting and finishing figures and an overview of relative quantities. However, water does not keep increasing except in 1998: it declines over several years after about 1990. References to goods transported to the UK also introduce an unsupported destination. The overview could identify the main overall trends more clearly.

The report progresses from an introduction and overview to figures and descriptions of each mode, but everything is presented in one paragraph. Separate overview and detail paragraphs would clarify this structure. Repeated uses of finally make the sequencing mechanical.

Vocabulary is adequate for the task but shows recurring imprecision and awkward collocations, including 'supply of goods', 'more quantity of goods', 'water transportations', 'in rails', and inconsistent use of 'tons' and 'tonnes'.

A range of structures is attempted with mostly clear meaning, but errors include reached to, the missing article in Least quantity, and the unlinked verbs in increased over the year reached. These reduce grammatical control, especially in the longer closing sentences.

The response presents a clear overview, covers all four modes with supporting data, and reports figures largely consistent with the graph, though the claim of a universal increase sits awkwardly with the later 'opposite trend' description of rail, whose values barely changed overall.

Ideas are organised logically across paragraphs with a range of cohesive devices and clear progression, although a few sentences run together and linking is at times mechanical.

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible for the task, with appropriate trend and quantity language, but there is noticeable repetition of phrases such as 'types of transport' and 'just above/below'.

A variety of structures is used, but control is uneven: “It was ... rose” lacks a connector, the water/pipeline sentence contains a comma splice, and the road comparison incorrectly equates goods with modes of transport.

The response covers all four modes with a clear overview of net growth and relevant endpoint comparisons. Some estimates are coarse, especially the pipeline starting figure, and the details give limited attention to intermediate movements such as water’s decline and pipeline’s plateau in the 1990s.

Progression is logical across a clear introduction, overview, and grouped detail paragraphs, with cohesive devices used naturally despite occasional mechanical linking.

Vocabulary includes useful trend terms such as “swelled” and “fluctuated”, but “levelled up” is unsuitable for rail’s final recovery. Collocations including “pipeline media”, “goods carrying” and “the number of commodities” also reduce precision when reporting quantities in tonnes.

A good range of structures is used with generally reliable control, but errors such as 'despite the figure of goods carried was roughly slower' show lapses in complex sentence accuracy.