In Nominative^x, Clauses^x, Definite articles^x

Paco2004 wrote: "The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb...

"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and OED's grammarians...