Most is what is called a determiner 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. 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 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. Most is defined by the attributes you apply to it
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. 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.
Which one of the following sentences is the most canonical The most has been explained a lot, but my doubts pertain specifically to which one to use at the end of a sentence Here most means a plurality Most dentists recommend colgate toothpaste
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: 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 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. 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
