🔼REPEATED AND DOUBLE COMPARATIVES🔽

Function:

1. Repeated comparatives

Repeated comparisons are used to describe something that is changing

All of them are used to describe actions and things that are increasing or decreasing.

2. Double comparatives

Double comparisons are used to describe how two things change at the same time, or how one thing changes as a result of a change in something else.

Double comparatives describe a cause and effect process. Also, they are written as a sentence with a comma separating the cause and the effect. The structure to use them is the following:

Form:

FORM

.- Comparativo + and + comparativo. .- More and more + multisyllable adjective. .- Less and less + multisyllable adjective.

.- The + more ( + noun ) + verb phras... .- The + comparative + verb phrase… .- The + comparative + the + noun + verb phrase…

Examples:

1.-  As a result of social media, it has become easier and easier to maintain friendships around the world. 2.- Global corporations are becoming more and more powerful. 3.- These days, it is less common for people to spend their whole lives in the same job.

1.- The more you study, the more you learn. 2.- The more food you buy from local farmers, the easier it is to support the local economy. 3.- The more expensive the item, the fewer people will buy it.

Exercices:

2. Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses. use either a repeated or a double comparative.

1.- People are becoming _________________ toward people in other countries. (sympathetic)

2.- The world is becoming ________________ with each new form of media that appears. (small)

3.- _______ I used Twitter, the _____________ I am in its possibilities. (more, interesting)

4.- ________ I read his blog, _____________ I find it. (more, funny)

5.- _______ you use social media, _____________  it becomes. (more, confusing)

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