Could you teach me ?
1→It's getting dark.
2→It's getting to be dark.
What is different between 1&2?
Do these have different meaning?
Which is common phase?
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Answers · 5
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They mean basically the same thing however #2 sounds weird. The more natural way of saying this is “it’s getting dark outside”
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1→It's getting dark. <= correct
2→It's getting to be dark. <= incorrect
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The first one sounds correct and its appropriate, the 2nd one is weird but commonly used by people learning English language though it's wrong. Just get acquainted with the first.
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As Matt said: they both mean the same thing. For #2, if you wanted to use the continuous tense, we could say 'it's starting to get dark.'
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'It's getting dark' is the correct one :)
I've never heard anyone saying 'it's getting to be dark'
Hope it helped 😊
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