{"id":73317,"date":"2020-03-23T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73317"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:42:27","slug":"the-more-the-more-conversational-structures-with-the-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-more-the-more-conversational-structures-with-the-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The More &#8230;. The More | Conversational Structures With The&#8230;The&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison and contrast are expressed by the use of\u00a0<b>the\u2026 the\u2026\u00a0<\/b>with comparatives in parallel clauses. This structure is used to show proportionate increase or decrease.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Word order in both clauses<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Definite article + comparative adjective + subject + verb<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The less\u00a0<\/b>I see him\u00a0<b>the more\u00a0<\/b>I like him.<\/li>\n<li><b>The more\u00a0<\/b>he reads\u00a0<b>the less\u00a0<\/b>he understands.<\/li>\n<li><b>The older\u00a0<\/b>we grow\u00a0<b>the wiser\u00a0<\/b>we become.<\/li>\n<li><b>The higher\u00a0<\/b>you climb\u00a0<b>the colder<\/b>\u00a0it gets.<\/li>\n<li><b>The older\u00a0<\/b>I get\u00a0<b>the happier\u00a0<\/b>I am.<\/li>\n<li><b>The more<\/b>\u00a0dangerous it is\u00a0<b>the more\u00a0<\/b>I like it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is possible to use a\u00a0<b>noun<\/b>\u00a0instead of the comparative adjective in this structure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The more money\u00a0<\/b>he makes,\u00a0<b>the more useless things\u00a0<\/b>he buys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison and contrast are expressed by the use of\u00a0the\u2026 the\u2026\u00a0with comparatives in parallel clauses. This structure is used to show proportionate increase or decrease. Word order in both clauses Definite article + comparative adjective&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2156,2155],"class_list":["post-73317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-the-more-the-more","tag-the-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73318,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73317\/revisions\/73318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}