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Qut Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Some sentence not understand while reading newspaper
Dear All
Grateful if you could answer my questions.
(1) Macau gaming revenue increased 19.6 percent to a record 28.25 billion patacas in December from a year back.
Q: Does it increase 19.6 percent in December compared to last year's December.
(2) It also brought the total gaming revenue for last year to 304.14 billion, up 13.5 percent over the previous 12 months.
Q: The 13.5 percent is up year-on-year?
(3) The manufacturing sector shrank by an annualized 10.8 percent quarter-on-quarter as the European debt crisis....
Q: The manufacturing sector shrank annual or quarter-on-quarter?
Thanks
Grateful if you could answer my questions.
(1) Macau gaming revenue increased 19.6 percent to a record 28.25 billion patacas in December from a year back.
Q: Does it increase 19.6 percent in December compared to last year's December.
(2) It also brought the total gaming revenue for last year to 304.14 billion, up 13.5 percent over the previous 12 months.
Q: The 13.5 percent is up year-on-year?
(3) The manufacturing sector shrank by an annualized 10.8 percent quarter-on-quarter as the European debt crisis....
Q: The manufacturing sector shrank annual or quarter-on-quarter?
Thanks
Top answer
1. Yes 2. Yes 3.
- 1.
- Yes 2.
- Yes 3.
- 8% for the year.
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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. It conly compared one quarter to another quarter, but if that same rate continued for a year, it would be a reduction of 10.8% for the year.
2. Yes
3. It conly compared one quarter to another quarter, but if that same rate continued for a year, it would be a reduction of 10.8% for the year.
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