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Jun 12, 2015 · The city was being crowded by an increasing number of refugees. It is in the passive form. Normally, it would be An increasing number of refugees were crowding the city. I wanted to use the past continuous, given that there is the adjective increasing, hence the situation was supposed to change soon.
May 5, 2009 · Some general guidelines for forming comparatives of adjectives in English: 1>>. For adjectives of one syllable just add “er”. e.g. black / blacker ; cold / colder etc. If the adjective ends in “consonant / vowel / consonant” then you generally repeat the last consonant as well as adding “er”. e.g - wet / wetter ; hot / hotter ;
Feb 14, 2022 · Feb 14, 2022. #7. velisarius said: "Wordy" is unusual in this respect. It isn't a common way of making an adjective from a noun to make it mean "too much" of the noun. A gerund is more "verby" than a regular noun. "verby"=verb-like, but "wordy" doesn't mean "word-like". "Talky" (not to be confused with "talkie") is a possible parallel, and the ...
May 29, 2016 · London has always seemed very crowded to me. Admittedly I haven't lived in the others for many years, but everywhere is more crowded these days, if only because of tourists, if they are tourist attractions. It depends where in the city you are, what you are doing, at what time of day, and, as an objective standard, on the density of population.
Nov 13, 2015 · Nov 13, 2015. #1. Hi there, from The Old Man and the Sea: He rowed slowly and steadily toward where the bird was circling. He did not hurry and he kept his lines straight up and down. But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird.
Apr 12, 2009 · In the context you used, crowded with is commonly used. P. predicamento New Member. Spanish
Jan 13, 2012 · Chinese. Jan 13, 2012. #1. I saw this sentence in my exam paper: - Did you get to work on time? - Sure. The city center wasn't as crowded this morning as it usually is. I think "was" is alright here. "Is" means that the speaker think the city center was less crowded only that morning, and "was" means that the city center would no longer be so ...
Aug 29, 2007 · Aug 29, 2007. #1. You are sitting on a crowded floor. Everyone is around you, pushing you from all directions. You have no room to move. Do you say, 1) Help, I feel so squeezed. 2) Help, I feel squoosh. 3) Help, I feel smushed.
Oct 21, 2016 · Oct 21, 2016. #2. The first is the normal way of saying it. The people themselves are doing the action. The second would imply that some outside force acted upon them like a cattle herder. Going a little further, in my interpretation the first "crowded" is an intransitive verb while the second is a transitive.
Jan 2, 2015 · UK. English - England. Jan 2, 2015. #3. The animal shelter was overcrowded with dogs and cats. <- overcrowded is an adjective: with is OK. The animal shelter was overcrowded by dogs and cats. <- this sentence is in the passive and 'overcrowded' is the past participle: by is required. T.
