Timeline for When to use "most" or "the most"
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 16:42 | history | protected | MetaEd | ||
| Jul 25, 2016 at 12:52 | answer | added | Justin | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 2:16 | vote | accept | chris | ||
| Jul 7, 2015 at 18:25 | comment | added | F.E. | There's some related info in H&P's CGEL, such as on pages 1168-9 [23], where it discusses factors influencing the presence or absence of the word "the" w.r.t. superlatives. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Related (though not a duplicate): Which is more common - 'the most' or 'most'? | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 11:29 | answer | added | Sankarane | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 10:48 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @F.E. Dropping the seems perfectly fine to me in all the examples you gave. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 10:31 | answer | added | Barid Baran Acharya | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 7:36 | comment | added | F.E. | Consider "What it was that I remembered the most is [moving a lot]", er, and "I remembered [moving a lot] the most". The function of "moving a lot" in that last example seems to be that of object; consider where it is replaced by a NP "my first girlfriend": "I remembered [my first girlfriend] the most", where it seems unquestionable an object. Now if it is cleaved into two to form a cleft, we could get something like: "But what I remembered the most is/was [my first girlfriend]". Interestingly, dropping the "the" in "the most" in the last example and in OP's example seems okay to me. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 21:26 | comment | added | Barmar | I don't think there's much difference from adding the. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 21:12 | comment | added | Sankarane | Have you checked to see if a similar question has already been answered? | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 20:59 | history | asked | chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |