Double comparatives in describing trends or events C
We often describe general trends by repeating a comparative.
Examples:
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Reports indicate that while some people are getting richer and richer, elsewhere people are getting poorer and poorer.
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People are living longer and longer.
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The overall health of a typical Glaswegian is getting better and better.
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It is proving more and more difficult to know what to do next.
1. [Match]
Can you match these phrases with their opposites?
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. get worse and worse (correct)
- 2. more and more difficult (correct)
- 3. cheaper and cheaper (correct)
- 4. improve (correct)
- 5. fewer and fewer (correct)
- 6. falling (correct)
- 7. more and more brief (correct)
- 8. fast (correct)
- 9. less and less (correct)
- 10. less and less apparent (correct)
- 11. more and more privileged (correct)
- 12. accelerating (correct)