The Idiom “The More…, The More/Less…”

Margie Wakeman WellsGeneral, The Comma Leave a Comment

This idiomatic pattern always takes a comma without regard to how short or how long.

…The more I see him, the less I think I can trust him.
…The more he tries to conform, the more he is being accepted.
…The more, the merrier.

Interestingly, the word the in this expression is an adverb!

Happy punctuating!

Margie

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