Uses of "to be + ing"
Hello everyone,
My question is simple: I'm writing an essay and I've used this construction: "the mean average age is estimated to be increasing in the next years". I wanted to put a little bit of emphasis on the time course of things but maybe it's not suitable for formal writings . Do you think it can work like this or is it better to change it into something like "the mean average age is estimated to increase in the next years"?
Thank you very much!
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There's no obvious reason to use the progressive aspect, so just stick with the non-progressive "is estimated to increase". Incidentally, "increase in the next years" is not natural. "
- There's no obvious reason to use the progressive aspect, so just stick with the non-progressive "is estimated to increase".
- Incidentally, "increase in the next years" is not natural.
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There's no obvious reason to use the progressive aspect, so just stick with the non-progressive "is estimated to increase".
Incidentally, "increase in the next years" is not natural. One solution is replace "in" with "over" and add "few" or a numeral, for example: "increase over the next few/five/ten years."
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