What part of speech is the phrase "more than"?
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"I didn't have a [one] dollar."
"I didn't have
more than a [one] dollar."
In the opinion of four scholars, "more than" is an
intensifying adverb that intensifies the noun phrase "a dollar."
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This is ONLY my thinking:
"I have a snake."
"I have one snake."
"I have
more than one snake."
"More than" is an adverb that intensifies "one snake."
Source: Quirk, et al.,
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985 edition), pages 449 -450.