Can an increase be negative?
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I'm working on an email to my supervisor with feedback about department meetings. I want to say:
Our meetings have been increasingly less productive recently.
I could probably re-word it to say "The productivity of our meetings has been declining recently," but I don't want to. :P
If increasingly means a situation or quality is becoming greater in intensity or more common, can it be used to indicate a more and more severe reduction in a quality?
word-usage adverbs intensifying-adverbs
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I'm working on an email to my supervisor with feedback about department meetings. I want to say:
Our meetings have been increasingly less productive recently.
I could probably re-word it to say "The productivity of our meetings has been declining recently," but I don't want to. :P
If increasingly means a situation or quality is becoming greater in intensity or more common, can it be used to indicate a more and more severe reduction in a quality?
word-usage adverbs intensifying-adverbs
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I'm working on an email to my supervisor with feedback about department meetings. I want to say:
Our meetings have been increasingly less productive recently.
I could probably re-word it to say "The productivity of our meetings has been declining recently," but I don't want to. :P
If increasingly means a situation or quality is becoming greater in intensity or more common, can it be used to indicate a more and more severe reduction in a quality?
word-usage adverbs intensifying-adverbs
asked 6 mins ago
miltonaut
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I'm working on an email to my supervisor with feedback about department meetings. I want to say:
Our meetings have been increasingly less productive recently.
I could probably re-word it to say "The productivity of our meetings has been declining recently," but I don't want to. :P
If increasingly means a situation or quality is becoming greater in intensity or more common, can it be used to indicate a more and more severe reduction in a quality?
word-usage adverbs intensifying-adverbs
word-usage adverbs intensifying-adverbs
asked 6 mins ago
miltonaut
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asked 6 mins ago
miltonaut
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miltonaut
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