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Chickenleg9529 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Asking about “distribution”

I have taken my English test recently. There was chart with title “Distribution of employment” in 3 sectors: agriculture, industry and services. Instead of using some words such as workforce, labor force or employess, etc, I made a lot of sentences like this:

“The percentage of the employment’s distribution was the highest in agricultural sector, which was 20% in total”

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“The employment’s distribution in industry had the largest proportion”

Is it acceptable to write sentences like that? Do it have the same meaning as “The workforce in agricultar was 20%”? Or I used the wrong subject for those sentences?

  

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chickenleg9529 “The percentage of the employment’s distribution was the highest in agricultural sector, which was 20% in total” No, this is not right, both grammatically and logically. The percentage of employment was the highest in the agricultural sector, which was 20%. Use "distribution of employment" only when comparing all the three sectors.

— Ivanhr

  • chickenleg9529 “The percentage of the employment’s distribution was the highest in agricultural sector, which was 20% in total” No, this is not right, both grammatically and logically.
  • The percentage of employment was the highest in the agricultural sector, which was 20%.
  • Use "distribution of employment" only when comparing all the three sectors.
  • chickenleg9529 Is it acceptable to write sentences like that?
  • Do it they have the same meaning as “The workforce percentage in agricultar was 20%”?
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chickenleg9529“The percentage of the employment’s distribution was the highest in agricultural sector, which was 20% in total”

No, this is not right, both grammatically and logically.


The percentage of employment was the highest in the agricultural sector, which was 20%.


Use "distribution of employment" only when comparing all the thre

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Why didn't you want to use terms like workforce, labor force or employees?

You could consider using the word 'jobs' instead of 'employment'.

eg “The highest percentage of total jobs was 20%, in the agricultural sector.

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