Talk:more and more

Part of speech?

This is entered as an adverb, but less and less is entered as a determiner. Equinox ◑ 20:29, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

I think both are both. Similarly, fewer and fewer.

I suppose that we can justify treating the determiner/adverb cases as special and entryworthy, but many adjectives and adverbs can be reduplicated yielding the notion of "increasingly":

Highway travel has gotten [safer and safer]/[less and less dangerous].

Paler and paler colors became fashionable.

They closed up shop earlier and earlier.

DCDuring (talk) 03:08, 14 May 2018 (UTC)