- grammar - When to use most or the most - English Language Usage . . .
"But what I remembered most is moving a lot" is correct, with or without "the" Although "the most" is the superlative, preferable Here, "most" is used as an adverb modifying the verb "remember", meaning "to the greatest extent" There may be other examples, where it can mean "extremely" as in the following:"it was most kind of you", "that is
- verb agreement - Most of what and is or are - English Language . . .
Maybe you can simply change the construction: Books are what I've most read, or, I've read more books than anything else, or, I've read mostly books 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
- meaning - Is most equivalent to a majority of? - English Language . . .
"Most of the children chose cauliflower " Probably means a majority "Cauliflower was chosen the most " Could be just a plurality But wow, it's pretty vague It might be very hard to say without a complete context, and even then could be ambiguous Note "most" can also be used in a subjective sense "I hate cauliflower the most "
- Most is vs most are - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Most men are stupid B Most of the men in that club are stupid C Most of the men in the world are stupid Sentences A and C seem the same in principle, but only A is completely unlimited The same applies to uncountable nouns D I've put most of the sand in that barrel
- Mostest vs. most - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Most is already in superlative form, so adding -est is redundant and ungrammatical It was popularized, however, in the saying (intentionally ungrammatical, to convey a sense of crude common sense): "getting thar fustest with the mostest"
- 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
- alphabet - What word contains the most unique letters? - English . . .
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- Most important vs most importantly - English Language Usage Stack . . .
To cite example 1 ("Most importantly [what is most important is that], Bob is dead") grammatically means that Bob is "importantly dead" Maybe that means Bob is a martyr or that Bob, though dead, has the willpower to be dead in a glorious fashion
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