Comparative clause
As? Almost/almost/almost? As, not so/as? As:
We will help you as much as possible.
I didn't make the progress I should have made.
We produce twice as much cotton this year as we did ten years ago.
My English level is not half as good as yours.
Much more than/much more than, not much? Than, not more? Than, less than; More? Less than? Than can be expressed? Not so much. ：
He is not so bad as good.
He was frightened rather than injured.
The current crisis in capitalist countries is not so much an economic crisis as a political crisis.
? No+ adjective or adverb comparative +than? It can mean the antonym of an adjective or adverb:
No richer than ...
No bigger than ...
Not later than = earlier than
John is as bad as Tom.
I only took six courses this semester.
The more? More, more.
In fact, the busier he is, the happier he is.
The more they talk, the more encouraged they are.
More as, as many as possible, as few as possible, and so on: when as many as possible? As, more or less one? When structures such as than are collocated with singular countable nouns, nouns can only be placed in the middle of comparative structures.
He is more like an athlete than his brother.