"He's getting more confidence"./ "He's getting more confident." Are both sentences correct and do they have the same meaning ?
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"He's getting more confidence"./ "He's getting more confident." Are both sentences correct and do they have the same meaning ?
Are you using "getting" in the sense of "becoming" or "receiving/obtaining"?Quote:
Originally Posted by ph2004
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhaisahab
"He's getting more confidence"./ "He's getting more confident."
In the first one "confidence" is a noun so "getting" is appropriate it means "receiving/obtaining". In the second "confident" is an adjective and you should use "becoming" rather than "getting".