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METHOD FOR WRITING MAP

Pick a side of the town. Divide the town into two parts, the north and the south or the
east and the west. Find the way to divide the town.

On the west side of the river, in the north, trees were cut down/chopped down and

replaced by a stadium by 2010. In the south, an apartment building/complex was
constructed between some private homes and the river.

Looking at/To the east, a hotel was built/erected in the north, along the river. (To

the) east of this, an industrial area/zone was demolished and replaced by / made way
for / made way for the development of / transformed into / converted into a golf course.
In the center/central area, an airport was established. Just to the west of the lake, by
2010, a residential area was developed after trees were removed.

“To the north of this/next to the railway station, the residential area was transformed
into an industrial area.”

Noted: transformed into and converted into: this means to change something.

We cannot say “the apartment was transformed into the factory”

We cannot say “the trees were transformed into the airport”, we cannot change a tree

into an airport. Instead, we can say “the trees were chopped down and replaced with
the airport.”

We only can use transformed into and converted into when we are talking about an area.

Ex: the park was transformed into the airport (because a park is an area of land)

We can transform a rural area into an urban area.