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- grammar - When to use most or the most - English Language Usage . . .
The adverbial use of the definite noun the most synonymous with the bare-adverbial most to modify an entire clause or predicate has been in use since at least the 1500s and is an integral part of English
- superlative degree - How when does one use a most? - English Language . . .
I've recently come across a novel called A most wanted man, after which being curious I found a TV episode called A most unusual camera Could someone shed some light on how to use "a most" and wh
- Most of which or most of whom or most of who?
Since "most of _____" is a prepositional phrase, the correct usage would be "most of whom " The phrase "most of who" should probably never be used Another way to think about the difference between the subjective objective pronouns is to revise the sentence to include a personal pronoun and see which form (he him or she her or they them) fit
- verb agreement - Most of what and is or are - English Language . . .
In your example, books ARE what you have read most, so I would agree that in diagrammatic reasoning most of what you've read ARE books Of all of the various materials I've read, most ARE books Therefore, because MOST refers to books, and BOOKS is a plural noun, I'm sorry to say that your friend is correct
- most vs the most, specifically as an adverb at the end of sentence
Which one of the following sentences is the most canonical? I know most vs the most has been explained a lot, but my doubts pertain specifically to which one to use at the end of a sentence Do
- Subject-verb agreement: Most of the x of y is are?
In your 1st example, the head of the subject NP is the fused determiner-head 'most', not plural 'paperbacks' ‘Most’ can occur with both singular and plural partitives, but here ‘that rack’ denotes a singular item and the matrix NP 'most of that rack' denotes a singular subpart of that item; hence singular agreement is correct, (cf ‘Most of those paperbacks are trash’, where the
- grammar - Is it correct to use most + -est together? - English . . .
Welcome to the most wildest show on earth Someone pointed out the most wildest and I was wondering if it was OK to use most with a word that ends in -est together
- meaning - Is most equivalent to a majority of? - English Language . . .
Here "most" means "a plurality" Most dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority From the 2nd Language Log link: I searched on Google for the pattern "most * percent", and picked out of the first 150 hits all the examples like these:
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