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by yourmelody » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:18 pm
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).
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by GMATGuruNY » Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:15 am
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.
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