IELTS Writing Task 1: repeat, but with numbers

In last week's lesson I wrote the following sentence in my overview paragraph:

It is clear that the principal reason why Americans travelled in 2009 was to commute to and from work.

Moving on to the 'details' paragraphs, it's fine to repeat this point because we're now going to include the number or statistic. For example:

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans.....

Can you finish the sentence above?

Comments

[Sue]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans was due to travel to work.

[Phong]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans were for commuting to and from work.

[Akira]

Sue

"trips" is plural:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=50+%25+of+*+was%2C50+%25+of+*+were&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2C50%20%25%20of%20%2A%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20which%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20it%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20this%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20what%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B.t2%3B%2C50%20%25%20of%20%2A%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20them%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20these%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20which%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20whom%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20patients%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20women%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20cases%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20those%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20cells%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3B50%20%25%20of%20females%20were%3B%2Cc0

[Vy Vuong]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans was for the purpose of moving to work.

[JJ]

In 2009,49% of the trip made by Americans commuter.

[Kelly]

In 2009, 49% of trips made Americans was for commuting to and working

[Kali]

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22percent+of+trips+were%22&oq=%22percent+of+trips+were%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23814.25827.0.26154.8.8.0.0.0.0.345.800.2-2j1.3.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..5.0.0.dtYgzb2FDy4

[VuPQ]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans tended to commute to and from work.

[Gen]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans who were to commute to and from work.

[Emad]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans were done because of commuting to work.

[Rio]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans to travel to and from workplace.

[Anh Nguyen]

In 2009, 49% trips made by Americans in order to travel to and from workplace.

[Sobirif]

In 2009 ,49% of the trips made by Americans were for the purpose of commuting to and from work.

[js]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made my Americans were for commuting to and from workplace.

[kali]

We've already used "commute to and from work" in the overview. Is there another phrase?

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=commuting+to+and+from+workplace%2Cto+and+from+work%2Ccommuting+to+and+from+work%2Cto+and+from+workplace%2Cfor+commuting+purposes%2Cfor+the+purpose+of+commuting%2Ctravel+between+home+and+work%2Cbetween+home+and+work%2C+trips+between+home+and+work&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cto%20and%20from%20work%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccommuting%20to%20and%20from%20work%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cto%20and%20from%20workplace%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cfor%20commuting%20purposes%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cfor%20the%20purpose%20of%20commuting%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctravel%20between%20home%20and%20work%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbetween%20home%20and%20work%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctrips%20between%20home%20and%20work%3B%2Cc0

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22trips+were+between+home+and+work%22

[jj]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans who were commuting.

[Yoda70]

jj
Anh Nguyen
Rio
Gen
JJ

Notice the main verb comes after "made by Americans":

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22trips+made+by+Americans%22

[samsam]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans were due to commuting to work.

[aida]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans who going and coming back from workplace.

[Alice]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by americans were to commute to and from work

[Simon]

FROM SIMON:

I would probably write something like this:

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans WERE for the purpose of commuting.

[Alice]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans who commuted to and from work.

[Yoda70]

Alice & Aida

"made by Americans" is a "reduced relative clause" not a main verb.

Much info on web, for example:
https://www.thoughtco.com/reduced-relative-clauses-1211107

[KP]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans were for traveling in between their work place

[Dang Manh Truong]

In 2009, 49% of the trips made by Americans were for commuting to and from work.