Please, would you give me some further coffee?
vs.
Please, would you give me some more coffee?
Could you think of when and/or where we could use further meaning more?
Thanks in advance.
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Sign up to join this communityPlease, would you give me some further coffee?
vs.
Please, would you give me some more coffee?
Could you think of when and/or where we could use further meaning more?
Thanks in advance.
(I'm only considering the interchangeability of further and more here, other meanings of further are no taken into account.)
Use "further" when you want to express some range or degree, either physically or metaphorically.
Examples:
Only "more" is correct, when you focus on a measurable amount, even with uncountable nouns.
Examples:
more reputation on Stack Exchange
Example in one sentence:
We need more money for further research.
On interchangeability:
When both extension and countability are correct, you can use "more" instead of further, but usually "further" sounds more polished.
Example:
Further is more commonly used as an adverb relating to the degree of something.
It is located further to the right than I thought.
Further can be used in some contexts to mean "more" or "additional"
Further meetings on this topic seem pointless
Further research is needed to reach a decision
Further cannot in this sense replace more or additional in general.