Fill in the blank: "I like this ____ than the other one" (more or better?)
Hi,

I overheard a coworker training a new hire today and she said to the other girl, "I like this one (referring to a particular brand of energy bar, I think) better than the other one (another brand, I suppose)".

When I heard that, I thought, "wait, isn't she supposed to say I like this more than the other one?". Then I said the sentence twice using both words and surprisingly, they sounded right... Hmm... :/

So, fill in the blank for me --- "I like this ____ than the other one" (more or better?)
Which is it?

Thanks.

Question

Fill in the blank: "I like this ____ than the other one" (more or better?)
Hi,

I overheard a coworker training a new hire today and she said to the other girl, "I like this one (referring to a particular brand of energy bar, I think) better than the other one (another brand, I suppose)".

When I heard that, I thought, "wait, isn't she supposed to say I like this more than the other one?". Then I said the sentence twice using both words and surprisingly, they sounded right... Hmm... :/

So, fill in the blank for me --- "I like this ____ than the other one" (more or better?)
Which is it?

Thanks.

Answer

„I like this more“ is grammatically correct as MORE has a value attribute for LIKE. (You are increasing the liking).

BETTER is a comparative and should be used like this: „This one is better than the other one.“ 
You can’t have a „better liking“ because the logical thought would be that your other manner/value of „liking“ was „not good enough...“.

You can summarize the full sentence as:
 „I like this one more because this one is better than the other one.“

Since this is seriously a long sentence, people shortened it in colloquial speech by dropping many words to make this commonly heard phrase „I like this (...)  better than the other.“

I like this one more than...
I like this one the most
I like this one the least
I like this one more than the other one

Answer

They're both perfectly correct.

Answer

They are both correct.

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