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Originally Posted by student95
猫は犬よりもっとかわいいです。
That is tautology isn't it? It's enough to use より, right? But is that sentence grammatically correct?
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It would be considered tautology if you asked a rhetorician but the question is: What percentage of the Japanese population do rhetoricians comprise?
It's correct if you call phrases such as "so very good" or "way too big" correct. Unless you are writing a research paper or legal documents, you don't even think about what rhetoricians would think about what you say and write, do you?
People do use より and もっと together. Nearly no one will have any problems with it. However, as YuriTokoro explained precisely, it would do you good to remember the conditions under which the two words may be used together for non-awkwardness.