Timeline for When to use "most" or "the most"
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| Jul 8, 2015 at 13:25 | comment | added | Sankarane | You're right. However, in your example, "... runs the fastest..." would also be correct. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 15:47 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | But I fully agree with you that superlative adjectives take 'the' before them, superlative adverbs do not even if a sense of comparison is introduced by application of 'of or in'. : P T Usha runs fastest (most quickly) of all Indian women. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 13:40 | comment | added | Sankarane | Yes, but he wasn't fully awake like us. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 13:30 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | What would you say to Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant when he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.--What did he see? --He saw a most wonderful sight. And was amazed like both of us. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 12:06 | comment | added | Sankarane | @Barid Baran Acharya: To me, using "a" in a superlative form doesn't seem correct. The following would be: This is "the" most convenient. This is "the" most wonderful sight. It was "the" most eloquent speech. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 11:19 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Exactly. And uppermost implies a comparison. | |
| S Jul 7, 2015 at 11:15 | history | suggested | kittenparry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 11:07 | comment | added | Barid Baran Acharya | It is from personal perspective, Janus. To me it seems'what is uppermost in his mind'. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 10:51 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | There is absolutely a notion of comparison in the sentence given in the question. It means ‘most of all’, which is inherently comparative in nature. Comparison is only foregone when most is used adverbially to modify adjectives, synonymous to very, which is not the case here. | |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 10:31 | history | answered | Barid Baran Acharya | CC BY-SA 3.0 |