Hi,
I happened to have a queer question about "increasingly" while reading a book.
According to most dictionaries, the word, "increasingly" is an adverb so that it can modify verbs.
But the question I have is that sometimes "increasingly" seems to modify the noun.
For example,
"On a practical level, it is increasingly the case that everyone does it;"
If you know what happens in the sentence above, can you tell me how "increasingly" works in that sentence.
I don't know the reason why it was not increasing(adj), but increasingly(adv).
The difference between "increasing" and "incr
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It IS INCREASINGLY the case that everyone does it.
Here, increasingly serves as an adverb modifying is.
HOW is it the case that everyone does it?
It IS INCREASINGLY the case.
Here, increasingly serves as an adverb modifying is.
HOW is it the case that everyone does it?
It IS INCREASINGLY the case.
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