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Are both "more/much" fine here?=>She doesn't make as "more/much" money as her colleague. Both "more/much" are fine here?=>She doesn't make as "(A)more/(B)much" money as her colleague. The given answer from my book is only the "(A)more", but I think "(B)much" is also correct and even more common to use. --- In case, there is something wrong with my understanding. I try to summarize what I got. 1. She doesn't make as "more/much" money as her colleague. as far as I know, the first "as" is an adverb to modify the adjective "more/much" the second "as" is a preposition to modify the noun "her colleague" 2. She doesn't make as "more/much" money as her colleague 'does'. in this second sentence, the first "as" is an adverb to modify the adjective, "more/much". The second "as" is conjunction to connect the subordinate clause "her colleague does=her colleague makes" -------- Any tips or suggestions are all welcome. If there is anything wrong in my opinion or understanding, please help to correct it. Thank you for your attention.

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The correct answer is : She doesn't make as MUCH money as her colleague. If you want to use more, you would say: Her colleague makes more money than she does OR She makes more money than her colleague. She doesn't make as MORE money as her colleague is grammatically incorrect. Your book is wrong.
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Another alternative that would work, without the 'as' is 'she doesn't earn much more than her colleague' which would mean that she does make more than her colleague, but only slightly more.
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Hello, dear Bernard Provencher Thank you for your reply. I understood the concept of as much/ more than. But I just thought whether there are any exceptions when I saw the wrong answer the book offers. By the way. both make/earn money are interchangeable and have the same meaning,based on the dictionary in the COLLOCATIONS section (https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/money)
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as much is correct. as more is incorrect, in this instance. She doesn't make as much money as her colleague is correct. Or, She doesn't make more money THAN her colleague. Hope that helps. That being said, the only people who "make" money work in a mint! I suggest replacing "make" by "earn".
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Dear Chris Thank your for your correction. I'm not 100% sure. So may I ask that means never to use the structure like "as +comparative adjective+. as"?

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