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[jasonlulu_2000]

The river is gettng dirtier and dirtier.

The river is getting more and more dirty.

Which of the sentencs is grammartically correct from the point of a native's view?


Thanks

[dragn]

Hi,

The majority of native speakers would say

The river is getting dirtier and dirtier.

Just as many teachers in this forum, I think carefully before pronouncing something absolutely stone cold wrong; however, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an educated native speaker who would let more and more dirty slide.

Adjectives ending with -y normally take the -ier form in the comparative, and I'm the one who is hard-pressed to think of a single exception.

Greg