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- Used in two halves of a sentence to show that when there is more of the first, there is more of the second too.

The more you eat. the fatter you will get.

Get your report in when you can; the sooner, the better.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

The more Bill worked on the arithmetic problem, the more confused he became.


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