"Much More So" as an Elliptical Comparative Intensifier
5 exercises — practise the elliptical comparative intensifier "much more so".
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Which sentence correctly uses "much more so" to say that a second environment is even slower than the first, without repeating the adjective?
"...staging... is slow, and production is much more so" correctly ends the second clause with the fixed elliptical tag "much more so", which stands in for "much more slow" without repeating the adjective. Option B wrongly repeats "slow" after the tag. Options C and D scramble the internal word order of the fixed tag.
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Which sentence correctly uses "much more so" to intensify a previously mentioned complexity for a second system?
"...the new distributed system is much more so" correctly uses the tag alone to mean "much more complex". Option B redundantly repeats "complex". Options C and D scramble the fixed word order "much more so".
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes the elliptical intensifier "much more so" from the plain intensifier "even more so" (weaker degree, no explicit magnitude)?
"...the second was much more so... the third was... even more so than that" keeps both fixed elliptical tags in their correct internal word order while contrasting their relative degree. The other options scramble the word order of one or both tags.
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Which sentence correctly uses "much more so" to re-apply a described difficulty to a second migration step?
"...migrating the message queue was much more so" correctly omits the adjective "difficult" a second time, relying on the fixed tag to carry the meaning. Option B redundantly restates "difficult". Options C and D scramble the fixed word order.
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Which sentence correctly uses "much more so" to intensify a stated risk for a second deployment target?
"...deploying to the US region is much more so" correctly pairs the elliptical tag with a linking verb ("is"), since "much more so" replaces an adjective phrase, not a verb-plus-object structure like "carries risk". Option A wrongly keeps the verb "carries" before the adjectival tag. Options C and D scramble the fixed word order.