【英语】求than ever before的用法

Question

带有than ever before的两个句子：
1、Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.
问：为什么不将than ever before放在speak后面？
2、So by the 1600's Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before.

求than ever before的用法。

Answer 1

than (ever) before, 比以往任何时候。比较状语本回答被提问者采纳

Answer 2

您好，中文和英文是不一样的，按您的想法就是所谓的中文式英文了，那英语就太好学了。