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Hi!
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Is this sentence correct? "The number of people who migrate is more and more increasing." Would you accept it? Thanks! |
2 Mar 2016
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titine69
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Hi! I would say:there is an increasing number of people who migrate. Titine |
2 Mar 2016
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georginasantanna
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Hi! Personally, I would say "The number of people who migrate is increasing more and more." I would not accept that sentence because I don �t think it is grammatically correct. |
2 Mar 2016
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marzouga
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I would say: the number of immigrating peopleis on the rise. But your sentense is also correct if you say .....is increasing more and more. |
2 Mar 2016
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yanogator
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I agree with Georgina - "increasing more and more". Bruce |
2 Mar 2016
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SM��
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".... increasing more and more" is what is commonly used. |
2 Mar 2016
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alien boy
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"...increasing more and more." would be acceptable. As I don �t know your student �s age or purpose for studying English, I hope what I suggest next doesn �t cause offense. If your student is writing for senior high school or university they may want to consider using a different expression to �more and more �. As an expression it is perfectly ok, especially for informal writing. A more formal expression would be something like "The number of people who migrate is continually increasing." or "The number of people who migrate continues to increase." Cheers, AB |
2 Mar 2016
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aura+
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Thanks! I didn �t accept it, but the student insisted it is correct because she had checked online and found the sentence, which, in her opinion, proves the sentence is correct. I tried to explain that we shouldn �t trust everything we read online. I hope she changes her mind after reading all your answers! |
2 Mar 2016
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FrauSue
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Hi there. I agree with all the above posters. In addition, your pupil can �t have found the sentence online, because I searched for it (in quotation marks) and the only result is this post. So she must have copied it down incorrectly. |
3 Mar 2016
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alien boy
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I have found many instances of "more and more increasing" in an online search. This, however does not make your students sentence either correct or commonly accepted usage. When I used the Google Ngram viewer, it yielded one result in a 100 year search of English language google books! |
3 Mar 2016
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cunliffe
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You could have �more and more on the increase �. |
3 Mar 2016
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