Repeat and Double Comparatives

REPEATED COMPARATIVES

Todos ellos se utilizan para describir acciones y cosas que están aumentando o disminuyendo. Para encontrar más información al respecto, 

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Examples:

She is getting closer and closer of her mother.

By the end of the twentieth century, couples were waiting longer and longer to marry.

We can use this structure with long adjectives or adverbs ; for example, more and more difficult, more and more slowly.

It’s becoming more and more difficult.

He is going more and more slowly.

Fewer and fewer children are leaving school.

He needs less and less money everyday.

 DOUBLE COMPARATIVES

las comparaciones dobles describen un proceso de causa y efecto. Además, se escriben como una oración con una coma que separa la causa y el efecto. La estructura para usarlos es la siguiente:

[the + comparative form] + (subject) + (verb), [the + comparative form] + (subject) + (verb)] 

Examples:

The more education women get, the later they marry.

The less children studied, the more slowly they learneed.

Verbs With and Dynamic Uses

Dynamic

"Dinámico" es un adjetivo que significa que algo se está moviendo o cambiando.

En la gramática inglesa, un "verbo dinámico" significa que el verbo describe una acción en lugar de un estado. Los verbos dinámicos a veces se conocen como "verbos de acción".

"Joe is chasing the bus."

  Examples of stative verbs:

• love
• hate
• like
• prefer
• doubt
• seem
• know
• own
• understand

Stative

"Stative" es un adjetivo que describe algo como tener un estado o existir (este es un adjetivo muy poco común). En la gramática inglesa, un "verbo estático" significa que el verbo describe un estado en lugar de una acción. Los verbos estativos a veces se conocen como "verbos de estado".

"Kevin wants some ice-cream."

Examples of dynamic verbs:

eat

walk

learn

grow

sleep

talk

write

run

read

become

go

Example sentences with dynamic verbs:

• "I can't talk right now, I'm eating dinner."
  Present progressive used to describe an action happening now.
• "Sorry, I'm out of breath because I've been running."
  Present perfect progressive used to describe an action that started in the past, continued for some time and has results now.
• "I didn't steal the necklace! I was sleeping when someone broke into the shop!"
  Past progressive used to talk about an action that was happening at a particular time in the past.

Example sentences with static verbs:

• "I think it is wrong to hit children."
  Here, think is a stative verb. It means "to have an opinion" and it cannot be used in the progressive form in this case.
  
  B
  
  "I'm thinking about buying a new car."
  Here, thinking is describing a process, or an action. This is something that is happening, rather than simply being. So here we can use the progressive form.
• "I don't mind if we watch a movie tonight."
  Here, mind means "be bothered by", which is a state of mind, not an action. Therefore, it is stative.
  
  BUT
  
  "I'm not being nosy. I'm minding my own business!"
  Here, minding means "looking after" and is therefore a process and a dynamic verb.
• "I have three brothers."
  Have here talks about the family relationship the speaker has with her brothers and is therefore stative.
  
  BUT
  
  "I'm having a bad day today. I'll call you when things are better."
  
  
  Having in this sentence means the speaker is going through the process of a bad day. It is therefore dynamic.

  

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