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- more of a . . . vs more a - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
What's the difference between these types of adjective usages? For example: This is more of a prerequisite than a necessary quality This is more a prerequisite than a necessary quality (without
- More than 10 years of experience or over 10 years of experience
8 Would you please suggest the best translation between the following: More than 10 years of experience as Senior Technical Architect Over 10 years of experience as Senior Technical Architect The sentence is in the description of the skills of a Technical profile
- ellipsis - What part of speech is ‘more’? - English Language Learners . . .
If possible always pay the balance in full every month or pay more than the minimum amount What part of speech is ‘more’and which word it is modifying?
- grammaticality - Comparing more than and more than what - English . . .
I don't find "I love English more than what other people are saying" very "acceptable" That "what" is completely unnecessary - and as @trideceth12 says, just sounds ignorant rather than informal
- comparative - Lesser is to less, as ___ is to more? Whats the . . .
1 I'm resurrecting this comment What Syntactic Categories or terms distinguish "less" and "lesser"? "Comparative form" isn't the answer, because Less, lesser, and littler are all comparative forms of little What's the equivalent of "more" in terms of "lesser"? "Morer" doesn't exist in 2021 English
- grammar - more preferred versus preferable - English Language . . .
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 Preferred is a verb 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
- sentence construction - replace more and more by something more . . .
In formal discourse, more and more omnipresent or even just more omnipresent is unacceptable Omnipresent means present everywhere, and everywhere has no degrees Moreover, you should ask yourself (I have no idea) whether your topic is the distribution of electronic devices or their use I imagine your critic's objection is not to more and more but to getting, which is still regarded as
- word usage - more smooth or more smoother? Which is right . . .
You can say "more smooth", or "smoother" Both are fine and mean exactly the same thing But beware of trying to combine them, and saying "more smoother"! Many will say that a formulation like that is wrong
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