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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.
What does the word "most" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Which one of the following sentences is the most canonical? I know most vs. the most has been explained a lot, but my doubts pertain specifically to which one to use at the end of a sentence. Do...
"most" vs "the most", specifically as an adverb at the end of sentence
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.
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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...
superlative degree - How/when does one use "a most"? - 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:
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Welcome to the most wildest show on earth. Someone pointed out the most wildest and I was wondering if it was OK to use most with a word that ends in -est together.
grammar - Is it correct to use "most" + "-est" together? - English ...
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.
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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...
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
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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