What do you usually say? 'I like...better than...' or 'I like...more than...' or something else

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I am a Chinese and I have a question when speaking English. What do you usually say? 'I like...better than...' or 'I like...more than...' or something else. I am indebted to all who answer it.

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@nomihut,

More. Both are comparatives, of course, but 'more' indicates amount while 'better' indicates quality.

The difference may be in my own mind, but most (not all) people would say 'more'.

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@roger,

I would probably say "I like this chair design better than that one." I also might say "I like this pizza more than that one with all that cheese on it."

So, I would use either phrase, better than or more than, as grammatically correct.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

More. Both are comparatives, of course, but 'more' indicates amount while 'better' indicates quality.

The difference may be in my own mind, but most (not all) people would say 'more'.

I agree, but IT IS PERFECTLY CORRECT TO SAY IT EITHER WAY.
BOTH WAYS ARE GOOD.

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@nomihut,

I ran some exact phrase Google searches, English only pages, pretty generic ones,

like hamburgers/hot dogs/cheese more than

like hamburgers/hot dogs/cheese better than

'more' was used more in all those situations.

For Osso's examples; simplified to enhance hits

like this chair better than - About 310 results

like this chair more than - No results found

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like this pizza more than - 7 results

like this pizza better than - About 365 results

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@JTT,

Well, now, I'm completely confused. Both of my examples would have been approved by google searches as "better than", but... had I mentioned hamburgers, all bets were off and "more than" was selected.

(laughing)

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@ossobuco,

I'm not sure what you're confused about, Osso, but I didn't address, nor did Google in finding these hits, any concerns regarding approval. There was no test involved regarding "approved".

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@JTT,

Approval by usage. This is somewhat like "voting with your feet".

I said that both are correct.

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@ossobuco,

My results had nothing to do with "approval by usage". My results had, as I mentioned, nothing at all to do with "approval".

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I said that both are correct.

And, what's your point? Just what is your confusion?

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@JTT,

I'm not really confused. I thought it was funny.

"Your" results were what you found on google. I don't really care if you could possibly see that as approval by usage, or not.

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@ossobuco,

I can see why you're confused, Osso. You confuse yourself. Try saying something that makes a little bit of sense.

As I've said, three times now, listing those google hits had nothing to do with approval. Approval was a complete non-issue, still is, except for you, sitting in your little self driven muddle.

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@JTT,

I see you have no sense of humor whatsoever, and are repetitive to boot.

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@ossobuco,

Repetitive becomes a necessity when one needs to drive a nail into what is essentially a piece of lignum vitae.

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Thnak you to all of you! At least I have known two of them are correct. It's just a matter of usage or frequency.

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@nomihut,

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At least I have known two of them are correct.

Nomihut, "I have known" relates to some unspecified time in the past until now, the moment at which you wrote what's in quotes, above.

You didn't know before then or you were at least unsure whether they were correct, so this would better describe the situation;

At least I have come to know[n] the two of them are correct.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

I see you have no sense of humor whatsoever, and are repetitive to boot.

I don 't know what JTT said, being on Ignore,
but I know that he is incapable of reason
and has explicitly rejected the use of LOGIC,
in his earlier responses to me, during our discussions of grammar,
before I put him on Ignore.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Is this senility, Sig?

I wanna hear the "seduced by an older woman" story, Om.

You should wait a bit after you get smacked in another thread. It will go further with your cover story that you have me on "ignore".

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@JTT,

Haha, thank you for your altruist correction. BTW, are you a student? Are you required to learn another language at school?

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@nomihut,

nomihut wrote:

Haha, thank you for your altruist correction. BTW, are you a student?
Are you required to learn another language at school?

Please note that JTT has no ability to reason.

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@nomihut,

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Haha, thank you for your altruist correction.

You're welcome, Nomihut.

BTW, are you a student?

No, an ESL/EFL teacher.

Are you required to learn another language at school?

I was, long ago.

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