Hi, can you tell "temperature was decreased up to -20ºC"? I don't know if you can tell "down to" instead. any suggestion? thanks for helping.
reduce/decrease When they are used in "verb + noun" form, what's (if any) the main difference between them? Are the following phrases correct? 1. reduce air pollution decrease air pollution 2. reduce happiness decrease happiness 3. reduce the speed decrease the speed 4. reduce...
Hi to everybody! I have read a few post about "Increase in/of" and actually I can't understand when should I use increase in or increase of. For example: "An increase of sound velocity and a decrease of the wave amplitude were found when the magnetic field is applied",I've been told I should...
Hello everybody. I have some problems when I want to say that something needs to be increased/decreased several times. I don't want to use "six,seven-fold"...
Hello I need to know if these words are the same and I can use them interchangeably decrease , reduce and relieve specially if I want to talk about feelings or problems, can I say Working reduces/ decreases / relives my proplems ?? Thanks in advanced.
The sentences are written in neutral terms, without expressing a viewpoint, so "improvement" seems a little out of place without a wider context. Similarly, "decline" has a rather negative tone, as if the reduction is to be deplored. Both "decrease" and "reduction" are good, but "drop" is a more casual word that does not fit so well in a sentence that also includes a term like "partly ...
Can you please lower down the volume/ lower the volume? Is there use of"lower down/lower and decrease"correct?