How to use most in a sentence Can most be used in place of almost? The most is the superlative form of many, much We use the most with different classes of words You use most to refer to the majority of a group of things or people or the largest part of something Most of the houses in the capital don't have piped water.
You use most or most of to talk about the majority of a group of things or people, or the largest part of something You use most in front of a plural noun which does not have a determiner, such as 'the' or 'a', or a possessive, such as 'my' or 'our', in front of it. The adverb most, a shortened form of almost, is far from being either a recent development or an americanism It goes back to the 16th century in england, where it is now principally a dialect form.
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