The more hurt...
“The more your brand is trying to connect emotionally to people, the more hurt people feel when these kinds of things happen.”
(The Guardian.)
Is "the more hurt" a head of the noun phrase "the more hurt people feel when these kinds of things happen" in which "people feel when these kinds of things happen" is the complement of "the more hurt"?
Or, is determinative "the" merely a marker of the comparative clause and not an indicator of the noun phrase in the cited sentence?
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tkacka15 Or, is determinative "the" merely a marker of the comparative clause and not an indicator of the noun phrase in the cited sentence? This one. The pattern is "the more X, the more Y", meaning that an increase in X causes a corresponding increase in Y.
- tkacka15 Or, is determinative "the" merely a marker of the comparative clause and not an indicator of the noun phrase in the cited sentence?
- This one.
- The pattern is "the more X, the more Y", meaning that an increase in X causes a corresponding increase in Y.
- In this case, the consequence of "trying to connect emotionally to people" is that people feel hurt when these things happen.
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tkacka15Or, is determinative "the" merely a marker of the comparative clause and not an indicator of the noun phrase in the cited sentence?
This one. The pattern is "the more X, the more Y", meaning that an increase in X causes a corresponding increase in Y. In this case, the consequence of "trying to connect emotionally to people" is that people feel hurt
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