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Bookmark or Share- grammar - When to use "most" or "the most" - English Language & Usage ..."But what I remembered most is moving a lot" is correct, with or without "the". Although "the most" is the superlative, preferable. Here, "most" is used as an adverb modifying the verb "remember", meaning "to the greatest extent". There may be other examples, where it can mean "extremely" as in the following:"it was most kind of you", "that is ...
- Comparative and Superlative for little? - English Language & Usage ...I disagree with most of these answers. "Little" is an absolute - like the word "unique". It cannot be qualified. "Littlest" is a word rather like the phrase "curiouser and curiouser", in that it is a sort of verbal joke. I have never heard littler. As a test try saying "She is more little (littler) than her sister." It sounds ridiculous.
- Is “zzzzz” the most common spelling to represent a person sleeping ...What is the most common or correct spelling of "zzzzz"? (1) zzzzz (5 letters) (2) zzzz (4 letters) (3) zzz (3 letters) My question stems from when I first wrote it as "zzzzz" (5 letters) in an English text, but a friend told me it should have been written as "zzzz" (4 letters) so I decided to ask here.
- "Most important" vs "most importantly" - English Language & Usage Stack ...To cite example 1 ("Most importantly [what is most important is that], Bob is dead") grammatically means that Bob is "importantly dead". Maybe that means Bob is a martyr or that Bob, though dead, has the willpower to be dead in a glorious fashion.
- differences - "much of the time" vs "most of the time" - English ...Most of the time is an expression indicating that something happens more often than not, usually much more often. Much of the time I would normally only use where you could not substitute often , a simpler word, which is the case especially when it is about a large chunk or chunks of a period, not merely a frequent number of times.
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