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