the more people get older

[Boris Tatarenko]

Hello.
I think the sentence below sounds odd and it's bad English.

The more people get older the worse their eyesight becomes.

My sentence is:
The older people get the worse their eyesight becomes

Which one is better?
Thanks.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

The second one.

 

[Rover_KE]

The second one, with a full stop (period).

 

[Matthew Wai]

The more people get older

Does 'more' refer to the number of people instead of the degree of being old?

Not a teacher.

 

[riquecohen]

I agree on the second one, but I'd put a comma after get.

 

[Tdol]

Does 'more' refer to the number of people instead of the degree of being old?

That doesn't seem very likely to me- eyesight deteriorates with age and not because of the numbers of older people.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'The more people get older, the more elderly services are needed.'
Does 'more' refer to the number of people here?

Not a teacher.

 

[riquecohen]

"As more people get older, more services for the elderly are needed." Now it does.

 

[Tdol]

If you change something enough, it will refer to anything. ;-)

 

[emsr2d2]

I can say with a degree of certainty that you will hear things like "The more people get fat ..." rather than "The fatter people get ..." in BrE. The intended meaning is the same.