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You use m___ in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something interesting or important that you are about to say.You use more in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something interesting or important that you are about to say.
The way we dress reflects who we are and, more interestingly, who we wish we could be.
More seriously for him, there are members who say he is wrong on this issue.
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determiner
You use more to indicate that there is a greater amount of something than before or than average, or than something else. You can use 'a little', 'a lot ', 'a bit ', ' far ', and 'much' in front of more .
More and more people are surviving heart attacks.
He spent more time perfecting his dance moves instead of gym work.
...teaching more children foreign languages other than English.
It's a good idea to give adolescents a little more information than they ask for.
As the level of work increased from light to heavy, workers ate more.
He had four hundred dollars in his pocket. Billy had more.
Employees may have to take on more of their own medical costs.
The urgent need to bolster the reforms is beginning to demand more of his attention.
You use more to refer to an additional thing or amount. You can use 'a little', 'a lot', 'a bit', 'far' and 'much' in front of more .
They needed more time to consider whether to hold an inquiry.
We stayed in Danville two more days.
Are you sure you wouldn't like some more coffee?
Oxfam has appealed to western nations to do more to help the refugees.
'None of them are very nice folks.'—'Tell me more.'
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phrase
You use more than before a number or amount to say that the actual number or amount is even greater.
The Afghan authorities say the airport had been closed for more than a year.
...classy leather and silk jackets at more than £250.
...a survey of more than 1,500 schools.
adverb
You use more to indicate that something or someone has a greater amount of a quality than they used to or than is average or usual .
Prison conditions have become more brutal.
We can satisfy our basic wants more easily than in the past.
If you say that something is more one thing than another, you mean that it is like the first thing rather than the second .
The exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is more a production than it is a museum display.
He's more like a film star than a life-guard, really.
She looked more sad than in pain.
Sue screamed, not loudly, more in surprise than terror.
She's more of a social animal than me.
If you do something more than before or more than someone else, you do it to a greater extent or more often.
When we are tired, tense, depressed or unwell, we feel pain much more.
What impressed me more was that she knew Tennessee Williams.
You can use more to indicate that something continues to happen for a further period of time.
Things might have been different if I'd talked a bit more.
You use more to indicate that something is repeated . For example, if you do something 'once more', you do it again once.
This train would stop twice more in the suburbs before rolling southeast toward Munich.
The breathing exercises should be repeated several times more.
You use more in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something interesting or important that you are about to say.
The way we dress reflects who we are and, more interestingly, who we wish we could be.
More seriously for him, there are members who say he is wrong on this issue.
pronoun
You can use more in expressions like 'no more, no less' and 'neither more nor less' to indicate that what you are saying is exactly true or correct .
I told him the truth. No more, no less.
I'm sixty-two. I feel sixty-two, neither more nor less.
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