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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
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:
Most vs. most of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
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
Subject-verb agreement: Most of the x of y is are? In your 1st example, the head of the subject NP is the fused determiner-head 'most', not plural 'paperbacks' ‘Most’ can occur with both singular and plural partitives, but here ‘that rack’ denotes a singular item and the matrix NP 'most of that rack' denotes a singular subpart of that item; hence singular agreement is correct, (cf ‘Most of those paperbacks are trash’, where the