The company chalked a 52.8% and 47.3% growth in revenue and pre-tax profit respectively.
Is the above usage of "respectively" correct? I mean to say:
The company chalked a 52.8% growth in revenue and 47.3% growth in pre-tax profit
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Sign up to join this communityThe company chalked a 52.8% and 47.3% growth in revenue and pre-tax profit respectively.
Is the above usage of "respectively" correct? I mean to say:
The company chalked a 52.8% growth in revenue and 47.3% growth in pre-tax profit
Yes, that is correct - when we say respectively, it is a way of linking items in one list to the items in another, with the same positions.
Alice and Bob received sentences of one year and eight months respectively
Alice received a sentence of one year, and Bob received a sentence of eight months.