Question

げすと

波線部はどうして倒置になるのですか。
教えてください。

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Those of us who live in towns have learned to adjust
ourselves to some degree to the kind of overcrowding which
seems to be an inevitable consequence of city life; 2 but, the
closer we are packed, the more easily resentful of each other
do we tend to become.
3(a)
It is probably on this account that
many peonle find life in cities irritatino and exhausting. since

Answer 1

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比較級の影響です。
比較級を程度を表す語と考えれば納得できるでしょう。