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More and more people + choose/decide
Which form is correct and why?
More and more people are deciding to travel abroad.
More and more people decide to travel abroad.
19 de jun de 2020 16:32
Respostas · 3
Good day, Aga,
More and more people are deciding to travel abroad. - In this scenario, people are likely to shift towards traveling abroad as time passes. The continuity of time links the meaning to a gradual shift in the decision of some people to travel. (Present Continuous)
More and more people decide to travel abroad. - In this scenario, you have represented a regularity of the committed action in a way that might be attached to a specific time period, as if the seasons or months. (Present Simple)
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19 de junho de 2020
Hello!
I would say that the first sentence is correct. In the sentence "More and more people are deciding to travel abroad." - "are" is the third person plural present of be and so the verb ends in ing and then there is the preposition "to" after the verb - "are deciding to". This sentence is complete.
In the second sentence: "More and more people decide to travel abroad" could be written like this: "More and more people decided to travel abroad," Because "decide" is the base form of the verb it would need a modal for example, "must decide" and then would be followed by the preposition "to".
I hope that helps!
19 de junho de 2020
They are both correct, but the first is more correct, because the Present Continuous is used for things which occur temporarily: they did not happen before and may not happen again. The Present Simple on the other hand is used for things which always or generally occur.
19 de junho de 2020
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