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- What does the word most mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- 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
- superlative degree - How when does one use a most? - English Language . . .
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 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
- 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:
- adverbs - Which is more common - the most or most? - 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
- meaning - Is it appropriate to use the word most to describe 60% of . . .
The general consensus seems to be that "most" could mean anything from "over 50%" to "nearly 100%", but that's a pretty wide range of definitions 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
- meaning - Most every and almost every - English Language Usage . . .
Most, as an adverb, can be used informally to mean “almost” In that sense, there is no difference in meaning between “most every” and “almost every”, except that the first one is informal
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