Which statement best supports avoiding repetition when describing changes across years?

• A. Vary your verbs and phrases
• B. Reuse the same verb for all changes
• C. Use only adjectives
• D. Describe changes with nouns only

Answer: (A)

Describing changes across years benefits from lexical variety. The best approach is to vary your verbs and phrases because it keeps the description engaging and shows you can express different kinds of change—increase, decrease, level off, fluctuate—in multiple ways. Instead of sticking to one verb for every change, you can mix verbs like rise, grow, climb, increase, or fall, drop, decline, with adverbs or qualifiers such as slightly, gradually, steadily, sharply. This not only reduces repetition but also lets you clearly signal the direction and pace of each change.

Using the same verb for all changes would make the writing feel repetitive and mechanical, and relying only on adjectives or nouns would fail to convey the action or the trend. So, varying verbs and phrases is the most effective way to describe changes across years without repetition.