Learn how to use “the more… the more” in IELTS Writing. This guide explains the grammar in simple terms and gives clear examples for Task 1 and Task 2 essays, plus practice exercises to improve your score.
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Interesting fact (from Hal Sawyer on Substack):
“My favorite relic English is the word “the” used in phrases like: ‘the more I look at this, the stranger it seems’. This “the” is NOT the article – it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English “pã “, pronounced “tha” which means either “when” or “then”. Back in early Middle English the structure “if – then” had not taken over and if you wanted to express an ‘if – then’ relationship you said ‘pã whatever, pa whatever’, meaning “when such-and-such, then such-and-such”.
“ba” sounds almost the same as “the” and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. “The more, the merrier” literally means
“when more, then merrier” or “if more then merrier’.