Comparative and superlative adjectives - The more, the more ..

The more, the more…

 Look at the following examples:

1. The more cars you make, the more money you make, the more resources you consume, the more profitable you are.

2. The more heat they trap, the warmer our planet gets.

3. The more we wait, the worse it gets.

4. The less we act, the harder it becomes.

We use the… the… (with two comparatives) to say that one thing depends on another thing.

Note that when we have the verb be in this structure, we can omit it:

The more greenhouse gases (there are) in the atmosphere, the more heat gets trapped.

Other common expressions:

The bigger the better.

The sooner the better.

The more the merrier.