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Could you help me with this?You find these kind of things more than you purchase them.I smoked my last cigarette before you smoked yours. I smoked my tuesday, you Thursday.By the 5th beer we'll be warmer.Thank you

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I meant to ask you for a while. Do you have trouble counting? Why do you always have more questions in your thread than you have in the title. I don't get i!

alc24You find these kind of things more than you purchase them.

I want to help you but I am not sure where to begin as your sentence patterns are so unusual. I have no idea what you really want to say.

alc24
I smoked my last cigarette before you smoked yours. I smoked my tuesday, you Thursday.

Mr Wordy · Answer

You find these kinds of things more than you purchase them. -- hard to understand, and I don't really see what you are trying to say. Do you mean "more often", perhaps?
I smoked my last cigarette before you smoked yours. I smoked mine Tuesday, you Thursday. -- the ellipsis "you Thursday", for "you smoked yours Thursday", seems OK to me in conversational English, but some people might disagree. The bare adverbial "Tuesday" (etc.) is, I think, more a feature of American English. In BrE we would tend to say "on Tuesday".
By the fifth beer we'll be warmer.

Alc24 · Answer

Hello Mr Wordy,

Isn't MORE OFTEN interchangeable with MORE.

There are objects that you never buy and that you always have because you've found them. Your friend asks you "did you buy that" and you say "no, I found it, I would never buy that"

Having said that,

can you say:

You find these kind of thing more (often) than buy them.
There are things that you find more (often) than you buy.

I smoked my last cigarette before you smoked your last one. "does this make sense" if both have quit and one wants to let the other know they've gone longer without a cigarette.

Can alcohol make you warmer like in my last sentence?

Thank you

Mr Wordy · Answer

alc24Isn't MORE OFTEN interchangeable with MORE.

Well, they certainly aren't interchangeable. For a start, there are many uses of "more" that have nothing to do with frequency in time. However, it may be possible to drop the word "often" from "more often" with little or no change in meaning, as in, for example, "I'd like to see you more (often)." In some cases this changes the meaning; for example, "I eat more than you" versus "I eat more often than you". In yet other cases, dropping "often" is not grammatically possible, as in "I more often eat out".

alc24
There are objects that you never buy and that you always have because you've found them. Your friend asks you "did you buy that" and you say "no, I found it, I would never buy that"

After reading your explanation, I now understand what your sentence means. Out of context I couldn't get a handle on it. It's OK as it is, or you could say "more often" if you wanted.

alc24
can you say:

You find these kinds of things more (often) than you buy them.

There are things that you find more (often) than you buy.

I would make the changes indicated. Otherwise OK.

alc24I smoked my last cigarette before you smoked your last one. "does this make sense" if both have quit and one wants to let the other know they've gone longer without a cigarette.

It seems an unnecessarily roundabout way of saying it. Instead, say:

"I quit before you did."

"I've gone longer without a cigarette than you have."

alc24Can alcohol make you warmer like in my last sentence?

Well, it can feel as if it does. Usually it's spirits that are said to warm you up, not beer, but your sentence seemed feasible. I assumed it to be a humorous remark.

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