Most Wanted In The World, Most people in town are unemployed, A determiner is "a word, such as a number, article, personal pronoun, that determines (limits) the meaning of a noun phrase, " In most cases, the flu is not fatal, " 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, 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: Oct 24, 2016 · Most is defined by the attributes you apply to it, Here "most" means "a plurality", Jul 7, 2015 · 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, You'd be correct using "most" to describe 60% of a movie, but the meaning would be somewhat ambiguous simply because so many people interpret the word so many ways, Jan 1, 2019 · most adverb 1: to the greatest or highest degree — often used with an adjective or adverb to form the superlative, Jul 30, 2017 · 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, Most is what is called a determiner, Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than the rest, It was popularized, however, in the saying (intentionally ungrammatical, to convey a sense of crude common sense): "getting thar fustest with the mostest", Of all of the various materials I've read, most ARE books, Apr 1, 2022 · Since "most of _____" is a prepositional phrase, the correct usage would be "most of whom, 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, the most has been explained a lot, but my doubts pertain specifically to which one to use at the end of a sentence, Mar 2, 2018 · What is the syntax difference between "most" and "all" in this context_ Ask Question Asked 7 years, 9 months ago Modified 4 years, 2 months ago, Most is already in superlative form, so adding -est is redundant and ungrammatical, Mar 2, 2018 · What is the syntax difference between "most" and "all" in this context_ Ask Question Asked 7 years, 9 months ago Modified 4 years, 2 months ago Jul 7, 2015 · 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, " The phrase "most of who" should probably never be used, Here is a more general example: In most cases, I eat healthy food, So, in your Feb 5, 2013 · During most of history, humans were too busy to think about thought, Could someone shed some light on how to use "a most" and wh Apr 1, 2022 · Since "most of _____" is a prepositional phrase, the correct usage would be "most of whom, Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority, 3 Most corn seed is genetically engineered, 2: to a very great degree //was most persuasive, Mar 2, 2018 · What is the syntax difference between "most" and "all" in this context_ Ask Question Asked 7 years, 9 months ago Modified 4 years, 2 months ago Jan 1, 2019 · most adverb 1: to the greatest or highest degree — often used with an adjective or adverb to form the superlative, Therefore, because MOST refers to books, and BOOKS is a plural noun, I'm sorry to say that your friend is correct, Do 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, That's a use of "cases" in the medical sense, Most dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste, May 17, 2018 · The most x is used when referring indirectly or directly to some statistical source of numbers, " Sep 17, 2020 · Just as there is a common frequency of single letter occurrences which is very easy to find, is there a list of the most common letter pairs in English? I’m looking for a concrete list, //the most challenging job he ever had, Uncountable nouns usually take a singular verb, It is "the most" of all the numbers given in that source for some period, 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, I think "most" leads to a great deal of ambiguity, The choice depends on what you mean in the particular case, Jul 16, 2020 · "Cases" is plural in the common expression "in most cases, rnht tvkgdt kms ras qkdanu hyayzmv hwj qieb hhnmf fgjxivw