Breakdown of Если делать это регулярно, прогресс становится заметнее.
это
this / it is
делать
to do
если
if
становиться
to become (imperfective)
регулярно
regularly
заметный
noticeable
прогресс
progress
Questions & Answers about Если делать это регулярно, прогресс становится заметнее.
Our current lesson is about чем ..., тем ... (The more ..., the more ...). How would we rewrite this sentence using that structure?
You could rephrase it as: Чем регулярнее это делать, тем заметнее становится прогресс (The more regularly you do this, the more noticeable the progress becomes). Both structures are natural, common ways to express this kind of cause-and-effect!
Why use the infinitive делать instead of conjugating it like если ты делаешь?
Using the infinitive without a subject creates a general condition, meaning "If one does this" or a generic "If you do this" in English. You could say если ты делаешь, but the infinitive makes it sound more like a universal rule.
What kind of word is заметнее?
It is the comparative form of the adjective заметный (noticeable). For most adjectives, you form the comparative by dropping the standard ending (like -ый) and adding -ее. So, заметнее translates to "more noticeable".
Don't we usually use the Instrumental case after становится (becomes)? Why isn't заметнее in the Instrumental?
You are perfectly right that становиться normally forces the following noun or adjective into the Instrumental case. However, comparative forms ending in -ее are invariable. This means they never change their endings for case, gender, or number. Therefore, заметнее stays exactly the same.
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