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Bookmark or Share- "There is/are more than one". What's the difference?If there be more than one (which you might like better as Should there be more than one) Quotated, that gets 20M Google hits, as opposed to 246M for "is", and 168M for "are". I may be in a linguistic minority, but at least I don't feel totally alone! LATER: I don't know why the two downvotes.
- grammar - More of a/an/the something than something - English Language ...For example, we can say "He's more of a singer than a dancer", which means that he's more like a singer than a dancer. However, I would like to know if we can use it when the words we are describing are preceded by "the", which is also an article. For example, can we use "The cause of the disaster was more of the operator than the machine itself"?
- differences - "X times as many as" or "X times more than" - English ...A graph in the actual CRP document (“Exhibit 2,” on page 9 of the submitted testimony) identifies the relevant figures as being slightly more than $4 million in 2012 (“to date”) and slightly more than $12 million in 2014 (“to date”). Clearly the headline writer considers “three times more than” to be synonymous with “three ...
- numbers - Does "more than 2" include 2? - English Language Learners ...more than 2. is > 2, meaning. greater than but not including 2. your other phrase. two or more. is very succinct and clear, you could also use. at least 2. to mean ">= 2", it does not need to be entirely spelled out as. greater than or equal to 2
- comparisons - Difference between "Better than" and "More than ...The cost of gasoline is more than it was last year. In some Olympic events, strength matters more than speed. Some rules of geometry get very complicated in more than three dimensions. More than anything else, communication is the key to a happy marriage. Clearly, the use of more than and better than are not interchangeable in those examples.
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