I usually just understand it as two or more since we generally translate it as similar sentence in korean 13 what's more is an expression that's used when you want to emphasize that the next action or fact is more or as important as the one mentioned What's more, it brings more chaos When more is used before adjective or adverb as inconvenient in your example, it is an adverb whose primary function is to modify the following word However, when it is used before a noun (or sometimes after a noun), it is used as a determiner or adjective. I have the following sentence, which was said to me to be rather informal (to be used in an introduction sentence in a thesis) electronic devices are getting more and more omnipresent nowadays
The modifies the adverb more and they together form an adverbial modifier that modifies the verb doubt According to wiktionary, the etymology is as follows From middle english, from old english þȳ (“by that, after that, whereby”), originally the instrumental case of the demonstratives sē (masculine) and þæt (neuter). In case (a) you are asking which of the boxes has more desirable qualities than the other This is question you would most likely ask to a person to get their opinion In case (b) you are asking which of the boxes would be more likely asking a statistics question, how many people would prefer box 1 and how many would prefer.
The more, the more you can see all of this in a dictionary example The more (one thing happens), the more (another thing happens) an increase in one thing (an action, occurrence, etc.) causes or correlates to an increase in another thing [1] the more work you do now, the more free time you'll [you will] have this weekend. With more than that it means that there is more (something else) beyond what was mentioned earlier You use more than to say that something is true to a greater degree than is necessary or than average Other things matter more than you do
After all, he'd been more than generous when the money was good. Sure enough, this ngram shows that stupider got started long after more stupid And once stupider is in, by analogy vapider eventually starts sounding more acceptable.
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