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Fattyshank Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Need help with my sentence.

Hello everybody!

I wonder how would it be if I want to say that the amount of people is increasing? Here's my version: "there gets more of them" But I think it's incorrect. Can you point out at my mistake?

Thanks.
  

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fattyshank I want to say that the amount of people is increasing I want to say that the number of people is increasing. _____________ Then you can simply say: The number of people is increasing. fattyshank there gets more of them You're right to think that this is not correct.

— CalifJim

  • fattyshank I want to say that the amount of people is increasing I want to say that the number of people is increasing.
  • _____________ Then you can simply say: The number of people is increasing.
  • fattyshank there gets more of them You're right to think that this is not correct.
  • If you want "there are" in the sentence, you can write this: There are more and more people in the world every day.
  • CJ
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fattyshankI want to say that the amount of people is increasing
I want to say that the number of people is increasing.
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Then you can simply say: The number of people is increasing.

fattyshankthere gets more of them
You're right to think that this is not correct. If you want
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Thank you, but can I say something alike but more colloquial?
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What I gave you was already pretty colloquial.

The number of people is increasing.

More and more people are being born every day.

Or you can say, more dramatically:

The population is exploding.

The world is getting crowded.

CJ
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