noun · academic
proportion
UK/prəˈpɔːʃən/US/prəˈpɔːrʃən/pro·POR·tion
Band 6-7task1task2speaking
a part or share of a whole, often expressed as a ratio or percentage
Examples
“A large proportion of respondents preferred working from home.”
“In the bar chart, the proportion of renewable energy rises steadily.”
“Task 1 often asks you to compare proportions across categories.”
Band 8 sentence
“A substantial proportion of the population now accesses the internet via mobile devices rather than desktop computers.”
Collocations
- a large/small proportion of
- proportion of/among
Word family
proportions nounproportional adjectiveproportionally adverb
Common mistakes
the proportion are→the proportion is / proportions are
in proportion to→in proportion to (when meaning 'tương xứng với')
Say it for a higher band
5part→6percentage→7+proportion
Synonyms
percentage
Easily confused
proportion vs ratio
“The ratio of men to women was 2:1.”
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