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- What are the rules for splitting words at the end of a line?
In most casual documents, hyphens decrease readability and oftentimes make documents look more cluttered, despite the fact that they form a nice, neat block However, in news articles or novels, in places where moving the entire word would compromise the shape of the document, it is very common to see end hyphenation
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- Most vs. most of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
During most of history, humans were too busy to think about thought Why is "most of history" correct in the above sentence? I could understand the difference between "Most of the people" and "Most
- grammar - Is it most or the most or most of time? - English . . .
These are questions that most people could answer Another way to look at it: "What TV show do you spend most of the time watching?" is a loaded question It already implies that I spend most of my time watching TV Compare it to "What spills do you spend most of the time cleaning up?" which will annoy me because I don't spill anything
- 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 is vs most are - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Most is what is called a determiner A determiner is "a word, such as a number, article, personal pronoun, that determines (limits) the meaning of a noun phrase " Some determiners can only be used with either a countable noun or an uncountable noun, while others, like most, can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns Uncountable nouns usually take a singular verb So, in your
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