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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
ever, remote sources
to obtain or make use of something:
For more than a century, Eastern cities have expanded their water supplies by tapping ever more remote sources.
Could you explain the highlighed parts? [Particularly, the `ever' and `remote sources' in this context]
For more than a century, Eastern cities have expanded their water supplies by tapping ever more remote sources.
Could you explain the highlighed parts? [Particularly, the `ever' and `remote sources' in this context]
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Eastern cities have been getting their water from places farther and farther away .
- Eastern cities have been getting their water from places farther and farther away .
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Eastern cities have been getting their water from places farther and farther away.
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Mister MicawberEastern cities have been getting their water from places farther and farther away.Thank you Mister Micawber.
I got it the sentence meaning. But could you tell me why the `ever' has been placed there?
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Ever here means continuously. Ever more remote = more and more remote.
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