Comparing things · CEFR B2 · Confident
better and better in English
Repeating the comparative shows a change that keeps going. With long adjectives it becomes "more and more" plus the word.
The shape
comparative + and + comparative
Describe something that keeps changing.
In Hindi
तुलना दोहराने से लगातार होता बदलाव दिखता है।
CoCap explains every structure in both languages, because a rule you understand in Hindi is a rule you can use in English.
The mistake to fix first
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
The traffic is becoming more bad and bad. | The traffic is getting worse and worse. "Bad" has an irregular comparative — worse — and it is the comparative that repeats. |
Learn these first
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Questions people ask
- What is the better and better used for?
- Repeating the comparative shows a change that keeps going. With long adjectives it becomes "more and more" plus the word. In practice: describe something that keeps changing.
- How do you form the better and better?
- comparative + and + comparative.
- What is the most common mistake with the better and better?
- Saying “The traffic is becoming more bad and bad.” instead of “The traffic is getting worse and worse.”. "Bad" has an irregular comparative — worse — and it is the comparative that repeats.
Where better and better fits
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
better and better is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to comparing things. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
Reading it is not the same as saying it.
CoCap turns this page into practice: Hindi sentence in, English sentence out, corrected one thing at a time. Free, no card.
Practise the better and better →