Why is most of history correct in the above sentence 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. I could understand the difference between most of the people and most
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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 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. 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 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: 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.
