Hello, I’m Sam from BBC Learning English.
And today, I have a question for you.
If you study more, do you learn more?
You could answer this question in two different ways.
One: Yes! If I study more, I learn more.
Or, two:
Yes! The more I study, the more I learn.
The meaning is the same.
One thing depends on another.
But, did you notice?
We change the sentence structure.
Let’s have a look together.
Take ‘if’ away.
Add ‘the’ to the beginning of both parts of the sentence.
Rearrange the order of the words
so that the comparatives ‘more’
– two times here –
are after ‘the’.
And you get:
The more I study with BBC Learning English,
the more I learn.
And today, I have a question for you.
If you study more, do you learn more?
You could answer this question in two different ways.
One: Yes! If I study more, I learn more.
Or, two:
Yes! The more I study, the more I learn.
The meaning is the same.
One thing depends on another.
But, did you notice?
We change the sentence structure.
Let’s have a look together.
Take ‘if’ away.
Add ‘the’ to the beginning of both parts of the sentence.
Rearrange the order of the words
so that the comparatives ‘more’
– two times here –
are after ‘the’.
And you get:
The more I study with BBC Learning English,
the more I learn.
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