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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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- differences - Most important vs most importantly - English Language . . .
I was always under impression that "most important" is correct usage when going through the list of things We need to pack socks, toothbrushes for the trip, but most important is to pack underwe
- 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
- 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"
- 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
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