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more /mɔːr/ aep /mɔːr/ determiner, pronoun, adverb
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A1 a larger or extra number or amount:
» Would you like some more food?» The doctors can't cope with any more patients.» Add some more cream to the sauce.» You need to listen more and talk less!» More people live in the capital than in the whole of the rest of the country.» We spent more time on the last job than usual.» The noise was more than I could bear.» It was a hundred times more fun than I'd expected.» She's more of a poet than a novelist.» Bring as much food as you can - the more, the better.Thesaurus+: ↑Large in number or quantity
2
A1 used to form the comparative of many adjectives and adverbs:
» She couldn't be more beautiful.» Let's find a more sensible way of doing it.» You couldn't be more wrong.» He finds physics far/much more difficult than other science subjects.» Play that last section more passionately.
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F0 used to emphasize the large size of something:
» More than 20,000 demonstrators crowded into the square.Thesaurus+: ↑Large in number or quantity
more and more
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B2 increasingly:
» It gets more and more difficult to understand what is going on.Thesaurus+: ↑Also, extra, and in addition
the more...the more/less
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F0 used to say that when an action or event continues, there will be a particular result:
» The more he drank, the more violent he became.» The more he insisted he was innocent, the less they seemed to believe him.Thesaurus+: ↑Being based on or depending on something
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Extra Examples:» Be a bit more confident in yourself!» Men tend to be more aggressive than women.» They still need a great deal more money to finish the project.» Do you think Australia is a more democratic country than Britain?» You should eat more food that contains a lot of fibre, such as fruit, vegetables and bread.Common mistake: more! Warning: do not use more before the -er form of an adjective.! Don't say 'more happier/easier/better', just say happier/easier/better: Having a computer at home would make my life more easier.
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