Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority. Another way to look at it: "What TV show do you spend most of the time watching?" is a loaded question. Could someone shed some light on how to use "a most" and wh 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. Most dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste. Compare it to "What spills do you spend most of the time cleaning up?" which will annoy me because I don't spill anything. 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. A determiner is "a word, such as a number, article, personal pronoun, that determines (limits) the meaning of a noun phrase. Why is "most of history" correct in the above sentence? I could understand the difference between "Most of the people" and "Most Jul 5, 2020 · 4 While this doesn't speak to the etymological reasons for why 'e' specifically is the most frequent letter, there is actually a very interesting statistical reason that there is such a letter: Zipf's law. 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. We need to pack socks, toothbrushes for the trip, but most important is to pack underwe 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.

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