Verbs to describe an upward trend
The following verbs can be used to describe a trend or pattern that goes up.
- climb (past: climbed)
- go up (past: went up)
- grow (past: grew)
- increase (past: increased)
- jump (past: jumped)
- rise (past: rose)
- rocket (past: rocketed)
Sentence examples using words that show an upward trend:
- The number of enrolments increased significantly between 2005 and 2010.
- Production rose from 800 units in May to 1000 units the following month.
Verbs to describe a downward trend
The following verbs can be used to describe a trend or pattern that goes down.
- decline (past: declined)
- decrease (past: decreased)
- drop (past: dropped)
- fall (past: fell)
- go down (past: went down)
- plummet (past: plummeted) = to fall or drop suddenly in amount or value
- plunge (past: plunged) = to fall or drop suddenly in amount or value
Plunge and Plummet, when describing trends, have the same meaning.
Sentence examples using words that show a downward trend:
- Prices of Model X dropped significantly once Model Y became available on the market.
- Company profits decreased in 2013 by 15%.
Words and phrases used to describe a stable trend
To describe a more or less stable pattern, you can use the following expressions:
- maintain (past: maintained)
- remain (past: remained)
- stay (past: stayed)
- constant
- stable
- steady
- unchanged
Adverbs used when describing trends
Adverbs describe HOW something happens. They usually come after a verb.
- sharply, rapidly, quickly, steeply
- considerably, significantly, substantially
- steadily, gradually, moderately
- slightly, slowly
Nouns used when describing trends
- decline
- decrease
- dip (a momentarily small drop in the level of something)
- drop
- fall
- fluctuation (= an irregular rising and falling in number or amount; a variation)
- growth
- increase
- peak (= the highest point)
- rise
- slump (= a severe or prolonged fall in the price, value, or amount of something)
- variation (= a change or difference in condition, amount, or level)
Prepositions when they try to use statistics to describe graphs and trends.
Prepositions for graphs and statistics (PDF)
Describing graphs and trends: making sentences worksheet
This is a worksheet to help English language learners write and talk about graphs and trends. Students try to write appropriate sentences for the pictures using the vocabulary at the bottom of the page.
Describing graphs sentence writing (PDF)
Listen to the audio and fill in the missing words
Describing graphs vocabulary and sentence writing (PDF)
(see the video version on Youtube)
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