General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 04 Topic 04.doc We can also use followed by and then to compare rates, starting with the highest, then mentioning the next highest and so on. Look The rate of vehicle theft is higher in Australia than in Canada. Rates of theft are highest in London, followed by Glasgow, then Manchester. The newspaper article says: This means you are more likely to be murdered in the USA but less likely to be assaulted or robbed there! We can use more likely and less likely to talk about the chances of something happening, based on the statistics we see in the graph. Examples 1. New York has the highest rate of traffic offences. 2. The rate of crime in Tokyo is higher than the rate in Seoul. 3. Rates of armed robbery are highest in Sydney, followed by Melbourne. 4. Canada's rate of motor vehicle theft is more than 500 per 100,000 people. 5. You are more likely to be mugged on the streets at night than during the day. Information The newspaper article says: Rates of robbery are also substantially higher in the USA … We can use words like substantially to describe the word higher. We call this a modifier. Other modifiers are considerably, significantly and slightly. Examples 1. The crime rate is considerably higher in New York than in Montreal. 2. The rate is significantly higher than in Boston. 3. The accident rate was slightly higher than in 1998. 141 QUESTLANGUAGE