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 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 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 is defined by the attributes you apply to it Most of your time would imply more than half, the most time implies more than the rest in your stated set Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than the rest I think most leads to a great deal of ambiguity. Here most means a plurality
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: 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. 1 if your question is about frequency, in both the corpus of contemporary english and the british national corpus there are three times as many records for most as for the most.
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. Grammar books routinely insist on the most as for all superlatives, but i can recall certain cases where 'most' has not been used as 'the superlative' but only as 'a superlative!' (as in) mr. The meaning of most is greatest in quantity, extent, or degree How to use most in a sentence
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. Trump announced the latest in a series of the most significant actions ever taken by our federal government to lower. Most of the himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources Now the two great asian powers, india and china, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys. 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. In this lesson, we will cover all of them with their uses and their positions in a sentence.
OPEN
